Michael Collins’s vision of Ireland as a centre of economic excellence has been compared by many commentators both to our Celtic Tiger excess and our current woes, writes John Daly

A MAN was impaled on railings after falling from a monument in Co Cork which marks the place where War of Independence hero Michael Collins was shot dead in 1922.

I CAN only offer sympathy to Patrick Fitzpatrick (Letters, January 22) for the way he was frustrated in his attempts to locate Béal na mBláth.