IT is incomprehensible that at a time when virtually all other businesses are reducing their prices, banks are increasing theirs, when most other businesses are cutting wages, banks are pursuing salary increases and when most other businesses are letting people go, banks are maintaining their staff levels, paid for now by Seán Citizen.

THE nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank will result in a millstone of bad debt around the country’s neck if it is maintained and NAMA proceeds.

THE Irish male is a much-maligned personage, judging by illuminating research from the European Commission.

ONCE upon a time, and a very short time ago it was, before developers descended, before machinery moved in, before the concrete jungle was born, we lived in a village.

BIG, bold and in a beautiful location, this house at Keel, Kilgobnet in Co Kerry is priced at around E1.2 million. And why?