WELL, there was certainly a Mary, but whether the main party leaders represented the Three Wise Men is anyone’s call.

CABINET ministers will have to factor in almost an extra €250 million into their spending estimates for next year, now that the full cost of benchmarking has at last been established.

OPPOSITION parties yesterday hit out at the Government’s decision to limit the back-to-work allowance to those who have been unemployed for five years.

IT HAS become characteristic of the Fianna Fáil — Progressive Democrats coalition that honesty and transparency will be sacrificed in the interests of their own political expediency.