IT is deeply troubling that the 2010 Annual Report of the National Board for Safeguarding Children reveals that the review of child safeguarding practices in each diocese, which the Hierarchy requested the board to commence in 2009, has been thwarted by them for over two years.

IVOR Callely, in his statement to the Seanad on June 2, indicated that the politicians’ expense regime is complex and there are anomalies in the system.

DESPITE the Taoiseach clinging tenaciously to the concept, the principal stakeholders of social partnership have been reduced to empty rhetoric and the threat of disruption that will be seen in due course to resolve nothing.

ONE of the many criticisms levelled at the Government in the aftermath of the election is their capacity to communicate coherently with citizens.

SEAFARERS and ship-lovers will be glad that the Jeanie Johnston is going back to sea to spend about two months on the east coast of the USA. Will she come back?