In his poem Dark Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh speaks about the Irish as a “dark people, our eyes ever turned inward”. 

The Ark of Dun Ruah — Protectors of the Flame

WE now have a three-tier ministerial system. At the bottom are the soon-to -be-announced ministers of state. At the top are finance, health, education, justice and transport. In the middle are the others, widely interpreted, since Brian Cowen announced his cabinet, as of minor importance, offering damn-all potential advancement to their holders, and awarded either as punishments or consolation prizes.

CORK born Jesuit, Fr Francis Browne’s collection of photographs, taken throughout the country - wherever his priestly work took him - is regarded as one of the finest of its kind in the world.

THE financial gospel according to money guru Eddie Hobbs was launched yesterday.