When one man set up a football academy in an impoverished village in Uganda, he had no idea it had the potential to keep children in education — and save young girls from arranged marriages. Doreen O’Mahony reports.

THE political expenses scandal got me thinking about Fianna Fáil, the Greens and Animal Farm by George Orwell. The last sentence of Orwell’s masterpiece reads: “As the animals look from Napoleon to Pilkington, from man to pig and from pig back to man, they find that they are unable to tell the difference.”

I THINK I’ve seen it all now. How quickly we forget.

THERE are few things that make my blood boil more than the arrogance possessed by Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary. His recent comments attacking the British environment minister Ian Pearson were publicity-seeking again.

WE have become an apathetic country. Some are more worried about cancelling holidays than about the lives that are being carelessly destroyed all over the world. Sure, we have our protesters or those who join the marches without realising why they are marching.