Free speech is upheld, but political caprice is unrestrained, in an Oireachtas where voluntary restraint is in short supply, writes Gerard Howlin.

FÁILTE IRELAND is a successful sales organisation that shapes Irish identity more than most.

WE put on our hats on a Sunday morning and march off to church with faith in our hearts and smiles on our faces.

VOICING his disappointment and disapproval on the Joe Duffy radio show at the sale of rosary beads in the shop in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Wallace Thompson of the Evangelical Protestant Society, Belfast, said “rosary beads have no place within Protestantism and ought not to be found, for sale or otherwise, in a Protestant church.”