When I was a teenager, the recruiting advertisements for Oglaigh na hEireann (Parkgate Street) invoked heroes from the days of Fionn MacCumhal, Brian Boru, through to the IRA of 1916-1921.

FORMER US President Harry Truman once explained: “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honourable than current politicians.”

BRENDAN HOWLIN and Pat Rabbitte were squabbling about what Labour will or will not do after the next general election.

SOME of the programmes on the airwaves these days are a reflection of changing times. There is much argument about what people should do with their SSIA money.