SEEING that Martin McGuinness is now making himself out to be a man of 100% peace, conciliation and dialogue, why didn’t he join the SDLP or Alliance Party in the early 70s and not Sinn Féin/IRA?

BY supporting the proposed pay rises in Anglo-Irish Bank, Alan Dukes has gone from hero to zero in my estimations.

PUBLIC sector unions are hell-bent on bulldozing the economy into oblivion.

CAN anything be done to ensure criminals cannot hide their faces from the cameras after they have been convicted?

IN view of the international forces that are helping to drive our small economy into recession, Taoiseach Brian Cowen must think global and act local.

BARACK OBAMA’S irrational comments about Americans who lose their jobs clinging to guns and religion revealed an ugly character flaw and were totally at odds with the utopian, holier-than-thou persona he has been trying to project.

ARE there not some nasty similarities between the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 and Beijing 2008?

AS voters are divided 50/50 on the question of the Taoiseach’s credibility, one wonders whether he is half innocent or half guilty.

Reading pro-abortion letters makes my blood boil.

WILL the wording of the Lisbon Treaty referendum be the usual gobbledegook that we get in these European plebiscites, or will it make plain sense to ordinary people?

IS there any chance some Fianna Fail politician might admit the truth about the decentralisation fiasco?

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney’s recent proposal that, in effect, BUPA should subsidise the VHI is... sick.