FOR many of us, it’s hard to imagine a time when television wasn’t a fixture in our living rooms.

There was a giddy air in the Dáil chamber as we entered yesterday at 11.55am for the daily set piece of Leaders’ Questions.

Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has backed Housing Minister Simon Coveney in refusing to consider illegal legislation in relation to water charges.

It is now widely accepted that US president John F Kennedy would never have visited Limerick in 1963 were it not for the persistence of Mayor Frances Condell.

CONCERNS about the safety of the current location of Cork Airport at Ballygarvan for commercial air service were voiced by former taoiseach Seán Lemass during the 1950s.