Earnings at the Noonan Services Group last year rose by 9% to €12.2m as revenues topped €200m.

The Sunday World has urged the Court of Appeal to overturn a €900,000 damages award made to a man after a jury found he was libelled in an article describing him as a “Traveller drug king”.

A Catholic priest who was found dead from hanging had given no indication he intended to take his own life, an inquest has heard.

I have come to the view that Enda Kenny is the opposite of the George Bailey character in It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s 25 years since the Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu went to the balcony of his party headquarters to address his people and finally realised that they weren’t waving in joyful support, but in rage.

The increase this month in the Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy, that all electricity users pay to support the renewable energy industry, should prompt a pause for thought about the rollout of this industry here.

Kilfeacle proved too strong for St. Mary’s in the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup while Douglas lost their Martin O’Sullivan Cup crown.

Though she wasn’t present at the PAC meeting yesterday, Angela Kerins and her extortionate pay packet loomed large as committee members took aim, writes Political Editor Mary Regan

European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton has apologised in the High Court to Cork-based property developer Michael O’Flynn and described him as an upstanding developer.

The sale of a book written by the late Gerry Ryan’s girlfriend has been dramatically stopped by the courts.

The Sun has been refused a High Court stay allowing it to challenge a judgment granting Louis Walsh discovery of documents in his defamation claim against the newspaper.

Jack Haughey’s second-half goal helped Down book a semi-final clash with Monaghan.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped America through its Great Depression with friendly ‘fireside’ chats.

I have given the IMF, EU, ECB Troika an excellent, periodical appraisal of its performance in implementing its “programme” on Ireland.

‘Billionaires san frontiers’, the international financial oligarchy in charge of this world, make a mockery of so-called concepts of ‘right’ or ‘left’ wing politics.

Spare a thought for Pat Kenny, Joe Duffy and all the other rich people at RTÉ, they will now have to ‘rub by’ on salaries between just ten and fifteen times the national average wage. God help the rich, the poor can beg! Miriam meets people like herself, and Joe Duffy exposes the things nobody wanted exposed.

I have a dirty little secret; I’ve paid the household charge.

To be fair about it, a former leader of Fianna Fáil told the truth once; and perhaps the truest statement ever issued by any political leader in history — “He’s the most skilful, the most cunning, the most devious of them all”.

I have a ‘get out of hell free’ card for our Government on the household charge.

Picture if you will the scene: a pathetic swathe of humanity queues outside a feeding station in Frankfurt for life-sustaining, foreign relief aid.

While watching BBC Northern Ireland’s news last Tuesday evening, I was surprised and delighted to see a report on the weekly protest, held every Sunday morning by the people of Ballyhea in Cork, against the bailout of Irish banks.

Declan Doyle (Letters, March 5) is on the button.

March 31 should come to be known as “Thick Paddies Day”; as this is the annual date on which we willingly hand over €3bn to foreign casino banks.

Mark Twain said “a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”.

One day last year I went around to my neighbour and announced that he would start paying my mortgage with immediate effect, and that he had no choice in the matter.

Declan Doyle is probably right when he says that any debate on the EU treaty changes will be “peppered with terminological inexactitudes of the greatest magnitude” (Letters, Feb 2).

Minister Lucinda Creighton tells us that the Government would have no difficulty in holding a referendum on any new EU treaty on the consolidation of fiscal policy, the so-called “fiscal compact”.

In a way, I miss Brian Cowen, or more accurately, the Cowen years.

WHY do we, as a people, fall at the feet of the legal profession whenever it commands us? The proposed 30th amendment to the Constitution is in danger of being defeated by what is merely the most well-educated and best-spoken trades union in this country.

IT’S unlikely Chris de Burgh had Ryanair in mind when he penned his 1977 song Broken Wings.

Lawyers for Ryanair have said Rosanna Davison's libel action against the airline is "a storm in a teacup" while the model's legal team has said she "had no choice but to sue".

DANIEL DECAVELHO, Ryanair European communications manager, told the court after the press release was issued, he received a phone call from Ms Davison’s father, the singer Chris de Burgh, in which Mr de Burgh said he would sue Ryanair and Mr McNamara personally unless they apologised.

THE acquittal this week of two barmen on a charge of manslaughter provides a stark, later-day parable for a people dazed by the labyrinthine analysis of our financial meltdown.

ITS’s all over bar the revenge. Most people will recall their mother telling them to not entertain base notions such as revenge and anger, and of course she was right.

FINANCE Minister, Micheál Martin, said on RTÉ's Saturday View last Saturday, that there has been no causal link established between our economic collapse and our political culture.

MICHAEL Collins, arguably, won the independence of this State through a network of highly intrusive surveillance.

THERE is one group of establishment country-wreckers that has managed completely to evade any kind of accountability for bringing this country to ruin.

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YOUR columnist Ivan Yates (November 4) has produced the finest piece of analysis of our current macro-economic and national political crisis so far.

OUR new Governor General, Olli Rehn, is coming to town. Unlike Santa Clause, he is carrying a sackful of bad news only. We, apparently, have been really naughty boys and girls.

I AGREE with Environment Minister John Gormley that there should be a national unity government, established in the immediate aftermath of a general election.

HOW many bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank had their bondholding converted to a “deposit” between March 17, 2007, the day the Anglo Irish Bank bubble burst, and September 30, 2008, the day the two Brians underwrote all deposits and bondholdings in Anglo?

LABOUR party leader Eamon Gilmore is full of joy at the prospect of being our next Taoiseach.