I’M BEGINNING to think there are two bank bailouts: one for boys and one for mammies.

THE President of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, Gerard Craughwell, says he doesn’t think we should “experiment” with our children’s future but I don’t know how we can make progress if we don’t.

OXYTOCIN. Women’s love drug. The drug associated with her sexual pleasure, with bringing on her labour and bringing down her breast milk.

WE have been here before.

PRESIDENT Higgins was completely right to highlight the outrage that is the denial of birth records to adopted people at the launch of his Ethics Initiative this week.

DRAG artist Panti Bliss’s speech on homophobia, in the Abbey Theatre on February 2, is one of the greats of Irish politics, up there with Robert Emmet’s parting words. For anyone who has followed Bliss’s (real name Rory O’Neill) career, this is not surprising.

Has anyone spelled out the alternatives to pylons and renewables, such as building a nuclear power station at Moneypoint and confining economic development to Dublin? Or just turning off all the lights and using candles?

THE Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, August 22, 1949, was an important day for the then Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles Mc Quaid. On that day Mount Carmel Hospital opened in Dublin run by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary.

THE detail about the pelvic exercises got to me. Last Saturday’s Irish Examiner carried an article by the UK social scientist Catherine Hakim extolling the virtues of the relatively casual French attitude to married peoples’ affairs and the centrality of sex to French life.

THAT poor child. He is aged 11, has autism and ADHD, and was left, says his mother, alone in a converted bathroom in a school in Co Kildare for five hours. His mother posted a photograph on the web showing him dismantling a light fitting, because he was frustrated.