Cosmetic. This was how Leo Varadkar’s Cabinet reshuffle was described by one Fine Gael TD.

A raft of senior Department of Foreign Affairs officials have been promoted and nominated as ambassadors and heads of mission.

I WAS in Dubai at the weekend. Nice enough place if you like that kind of thing: glitzy, a bit soulless, but after the weather we’ve been having at home, who’s complaining?

THE Department of Foreign Affairs has defended a decision to finance weighty research into why voters backed the Lisbon Treaty.

IT IS interesting to see that Brian Cowen now wants to see God in the EU constitution. In the Dáil debate on October 16, Mr Cowen said he supported “… a reference to God or Europe’s Christian heritage in the preamble of the constitutional treaty”.