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GIVEN the capacity of every mobile phone and computer to provide you with a diary application these days, you would think that diaries in the physical sense would be dying off.

THE decision by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to send his aide de camp (ADC) to Katy French’s funeral last Monday was a remarkable, ill conceived and most probably wrong.

THE Government last night insisted its media monitoring unit is non-political, despite an internal departmental memo comparing its role to a key part of Tony Blair's infamous spin machine.