Life is all about change — at least that’s the standard counsel, increasingly received as the years roll by.

Una Healy will be dropping into the studio for a tune and a chat with Ray.

Fianna Fáil has also done many God-awful things but the fact is they handled the banking crash well, writes Victoria White

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Bernie Sanders' talk in Dublin has sold out in minutes.

US Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is to come to Ireland in June, it has been announced.

Four Irish Examiner journalists are among Ireland’s top 100 influential journalists on Twitter.

Simon Coveney has shown that his is prepared to risk his political neck in order to do the right thing, writes Victoria White.

SATURDAY

There is nothing populism craves more than elites to rail against, writes Michael Clifford

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Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

MARIA Walsh is no stranger to charity work — the former Rose of Tralee has previously travelled to Calcutta, South Africa, Tanzania, and Chernobyl to support worthy causes.

Accumulated profits at the media firm owned by celebrity economist David McWilliams jumped last year by over €250,000.

I would like to see fairer delivery of justice and a review of the imbalance in distribution of the country’s wealth during the coming year.

Marketing and taxes are among the biggest challenges facing Irish start-ups, whether they are based here or abroad, the Global Irish Economic Forum heard yesterday.

Though possibly churlish, a point was reached yesterday at the gathering of the business diaspora known as the ‘Global Irish Economic Forum’ that you wished for an appearance of fractious Paddy Cosgrave — the man who is taking his Web Summit out of Ireland and on to Portugal.

In his recent TV programme David McWilliams went to London - a centre of colonial power for centuries - to get someone to denounce this small democracy and former colony as a ‘pariah state’.

The 2011 census revealed we have 289, 451 vacant properties and of these 59,395 were classed as holiday homes.

The banking inquiry was redolent with film references as two fallen stars from the Celtic Tiger’s silver screen era, Mary Harney and John Gormley, took a stroll down the political equivalent of Sunset Boulevard one last time.

A developer member of the Maple 10 group given money to buy shares in Anglo who previously claimed it was “hard to tell” if he was a billionaire, has blamed the “glut of inexperienced developers” seeking “a quick buck” for the crash.

Former financial regulator Patrick Neary has pointed the “finger of responsibility” at government, the Central Bank, financial institutions, the ESRI, and Europe for what politicians have said was his own failure to do his job.

A new “secondhand Ireland” has emerged with the buying and selling of previously owned items now worth as much as €4.5bn annually, according to a new report.

The Irish do not need Frankfurt to stop us borrowing madly again.

THE media was all over the news last week, says Michael Clifford.

We need to talk about the banks — we really do. And we need to keep talking about them, because everything that is wrong with this country, today, stems from them.

A hotel that found itself ‘underwater’, and which had to be bailed out by foreign money, was an apt spot for economist, David McWilliams, to expound on matters financial.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

Efforts by celebrity economist David McWilliams at exploiting his brand are paying off, with accumulated profits at his media firm last year jumping by over €20,000 to €629,846.

Rock ‘n’ roll arrived at the Oireachtas banking inquiry yesterday. It came in the form of David McWilliams: He Who Foretold The Crash.

The bank guarantee should have been designed as a temporary measure until losses in the banks could be determined, the economist and broadcaster David McWilliams told the banking inquiry yesterday.

The Banking Inquiry has been told that former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan felt he could not believe the advice given by his own advisors.

The 2008 blanket bank guarantee was a “fix up” designed to give “insolvent” Irish institutions emergency funding they should never have received, with the “politically biased” error ultimately forcing the ECB to impose the November 2010 bailout when the full crisis emerged.

The powers-that-be in Brussels held Ireland as the shining example of economic excellence throughout the Celtic Tiger and, excepting David McWilliams and Dr Morgan Kelly, who were pilloried, nobody in Ireland questioned the basis of the boom.

Will there ever be an end to the sort of the political teasing we are forced to endure? 

Politicians are failing miserably on social media, despite almost all Oireachtas members having Twitter accounts.

Come back and write another chapter, Daphne. That’s what Victoria White kept thinking as she stared in horror at the security fencing which now surrounds the Puxley Mansion outside Castletownbere. She explains why.

As foot-in-mouth merchant Silvio Berlusconi finishes his first week of community service, Dave Kenny picks some examples of other people who’ve been in hot water with the political correctness brigade.

TV3 have bought the rights to make an Irish version of hit Channel 4 TV show 'Gogglebox', it was announced today.

The financial services sector is like a runaway train and must be sidetracked.

In 2008 economist Nouriel Roubini earned widespread ridicule for claiming that the embryonic problems in the US subprime sector would mutate into an existential financial crisis that would cost the banking system over $1 trillion (€721bn).