AMERICA’S Republican Party was often deplored as a ruling elite of WASPs — White Anglo Saxon Protestants. Enda Kenny’s coalition cabinet could lay claim to a tweaked version of the same acronym — Worn, Affluent, Suburban and Pacified.

IT IS ridiculous that former Garda Assistant Commissioner Martin Donnellan had to go to court to try to hold on to his job because he had reached a mandatory but irrational retirement age of 60. It is even more ridiculous that his case was dismissed.