Soldiers in Irish units of the British Army called on to quash the fighting at the GPO,

People may argue about the implications of today’s vote for years, or even decades to come, but it is important to bear in mind this is not just a political beauty contest to express a preference for who should be Taoiseach in the next Dáil.

THE current rumblings within Fianna Fáil and Mary Harney’s hand bagging of MichaelMcDowell this week were reminders that prior to the arrival of Charlie Haughey on the political scene, there were no power struggles in the main political parties within Leinster House.

BERTIE AHERN’S address to the United Nations this week attracted little international attention, which was hardly surprising.