WHILE undoubtedly very important, it may not be quite correct to say that “mortgage arrears is the single biggest issue currently facing Irish people”, as Taoiseach Enda Kenny said last Tuesday in the Dáil.

IT’S been a year now since our economic sovereignty went west.

IT now seems unavoidable that minority stakes — at the very least — in pivotal semi-state companies will be sold to try to sustain investment in essential capital projects.

THE Government simply can’t permit Professor Morgan Kelly’s latest pessimistic prediction become reality.

PROFESSOR Morgan Kelly’s record gives him an authority that cannot be ignored.