Listowel has been named as Ireland's tidiest town for 2018.

Election posters again became a topic of discussion during the recent local and European elections, as an aside to political issues such as water charges, medical cards and the economy.

WHEN it comes to economics, the problem with the Keyneses and the Stiglitzes of this world is their science is inexact and can be too abstract for many to understand. Any economy that obeys the simple laws of Mammynomics will be sound no matter what happens.