ONE thing the state can’t be accused of is letting down the seal population.

DESPITE an earlier admission that it would be doomed to failure, the Department of the Environment’s National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is incredibly proceeding with a €1 million mink massacre.

THE chairwoman of the Office of Public Works has conceded that a €425,000 campaign to raise awareness of flooding did not work.

THE undocumented Irish may be getting a hard time in US, but here in Ireland the Government is planning a much more radical expulsion of unwelcome Americans.