AS the pressures of life intensify in Ireland today, growing numbers of people are turning to tranquillisers, sedatives and anti-depressant drugs for stress relief.

IN the middle of the outrage about the appointment of Celia Larkin to a “cushy job” (which is neither a job nor cushy, but we’ll come to that) someone came up with the ultimate indictment of the state board to which she’d been appointed:

IT IS not much more than eighteen months since France defeated the All Blacks in a World Cup semi final widely regarded as the finest rugby match ever seen.