At a moment in our public life when the cradle-to-grave perspective and the kind of vibrant, looking-ahead imagination that brought the impressive Web Summit to Dublin seems in short enough supply tomorrow’s 25th anniversary of the removal of the Berlin Wall offers an opportunity to indulge in that almost penitential process that has, on occasion, saved many of us from delusion — mature reflection.

Sonya Kelly puts a funny spin on her battles with bureaucracy to secure an Irish visa for her Australian girlfriend, writes Pádraic Killeen

IRISH people will have to exercise much more control over alcohol, especially binge drinking, if they want to reduce worrying suicide rates, an international expert told a conference on suicide, yesterday.