If Jim Power had applied any kind of balance to his column ‘Economy continues to defy the doubters and naysayers’ (Irish Examiner, December 22) detailing the apparent success of the upwardly mobile business sector of our two-tier economy he would have pointed out that his good news applies to the upper tier.

The Los Angeles City Council should scrap a proposal for a new law limiting the activities of paparazzi around celebrities, the city Police Commission recommended.

OPPOSITION parties yesterday roundly welcomed confirmation of the IRA’s final decommissioning and called on loyalist paramilitary groups to follow suit.