A government that is unable to ascertain, by mathematical calculation, that the State pension has been untouched, is unlikely to be able to manage Ireland Ltd.

Beleaguered former billionaire Sean Quinn was an outspoken guest of honour at the launch of the Ballinamore Family Festival in Co Leitrim yesterday.

I MUST write to express my outrage at the “Punch and Judy Show” antics of our political parties which is leaving us, the public, so muddled as to whether any party has a solid policy on the important issues and whose policy is whose?