So, “Irish soccer fans are the best fans in the world” — or so we are told endlessly by RTE sports personalities and numerous reporters.

Ireland will have to pay billions into the European Stability Mechanism, ESM fund if the conjoined Compact Treaty is passed. The first instalment will have to be made by July.

IF it is Jennifer Sleeman’s intention to advance the cause of women through her call for a boycott of mass tomorrow, she should do so, informed by the teaching of the Catholic Church on the dignity of women.