To paraphrase Edmund Burke’s timeless warning — the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing — is probably so well-thumbed that its wake-up-and-smell-the-failure pungency has faded.

In 1935 Joseph Stalin is said to have asked contemptuously: “how many divisions has the pope?” The question was answered emphatically by John Paul II long after the Soviet dictator’s death when the Berlin Wall came crashing down and Eastern Europe emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.

In 1935 Joseph Stalin is said to have asked contemptuously: “how many divisions has the pope?” The question was answered emphatically by John Paul II long after the Soviet dictator’s death when the Berlin Wall came crashing down and Eastern Europe emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.

Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has reiterated the government’s determination to protect the Common Travel Area and "protect the free movement of people and the mutually beneficial flow of students, staff and researchers."

An elegant playmaker, Paddy Kelly has retired from Gaelic football with one All-Ireland senior medal. But he wanted more and rather than look back, he is angry about Cork’s future and what he sees as apathy engulfing the county...

All editing is over. Speech, projected on new platforms, has become the newly authoritative medium, writes Gerard Howlin.

THE scale of Europe’s refugee crisis appears immense but it could attain biblical proportions in the not too distant future because of the failure of EU nations to agree a common strategy, the lethargy of the United Nations and, notably, climate change.

Children’s Minister James Reilly addressed the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi on the battle for cigarette plain packaging legislation in Ireland and Europe

To coincide with the Crawford’s new book showcasing its collection, Alan O’Riordan asked a number of art lovers to select their most cherished work from the Cork gallery

The RTÉ Primetime Bungalow 3 programme revelations are beyond sickening and totally reprehensible to the core of Irish society. 

In the wake of the Garda debacle we must question who we can trust.

For decades, the whistleblower within Irish society has been vital in uncovering misbehaviour in institutions as varied as the Catholic Church, the Oireachtas, the banks and the Garda Siochána.

A Georgian mantlepiece is among the top draws for Des O’Sullivan this week.

MICHEÁL Martin sent me looking for Edmund Burke, and I’m not grateful. I’ve spent several hours searching Burke’s writings (or as much as I could find online) for one phrase. As great a mind and a philosopher as he was (Burke not Martin), he is no easy read.

TD Simon Harris has claimed the media is this country’s real opposition. Somebody has to be, because those in the Dáil aren’t up to the task, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly.

Jonathan O’Brien’s letter (Dec 10) states well how “For over 100 years, 365 days a year, the Union flag is flown over Belfast City Hall ... the cultural national alliances of nationalism have not been recognised”.

Top performances at the London Olympics, a Rolex FEI Show Jumping World Cup win, and Ireland reclaiming first place in world studbook eventing rankings, were reflected at the presentation of the Horse Sport Ireland 2012 Breeders’ Awards.

It didn’t take long for people to start picking holes in Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s miracle goal.

Equestrian facilities are to be developed at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown, Dublin, Horse Sport Ireland has confirmed.

Edmund Burke’s quote: “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing” must surely ring in the ears of Cardinal Sean Brady these past 37 years.

Things have come to a strange pass when a win for Real Madrid, courtesy of a goal by the world’s most expensive player, feels like a victory for the underdog.

That almost a dozen people stood by as a 16-year-old boy was beaten within an inch of his life is a very sad reflection of our society, writes Dan Buckley

IN his letter (October 15), Andrew Doyle emphasises the opportunism of independent TDs.

STEVEN KING’S column on the Gaza flotilla activists (June 9) was a shameful outpouring.

LISTS that aim to honour greatness are usually no more than a snapshot of the moment we live in.

YOU can have too much of a good thing. All those debates, all those ordinary citizens actively participating in the democratic process: who couldn’t have be energised by the hard fought US Presidential battle? I’m fast becoming disillusioned.

FOR the second time in a little more than a decade, Cork is to host a world debating championship.

THE ‘peasant mentality’ of the vandalism at Tara (Letters, April 30) is hardly adequate to describe the destruction proposed by the NRA at Carrigaphooca Castle Demesne near Macroom in Co Cork.

We have long enjoyed good relations with the Government and people of the United States. Indeed, much of our Celtic Tiger prosperity is thanks to this relationship with the Americans.

DEPUTY Liz McManus says the time may come when we all have to march empty-handed onto airplanes. She may be right.

IN his column (Irish Examiner, August 31), Hermann Kelly began by saying he was “going to write an article supporting Israel’s right to defend itself”.

TOP eventer Sue Shortt says compatriot Steven Smith has the credentials to win the World Cup qualifier at this weekend’s Irish Horse Board Ballindenisk International Horse Trials.

THE last vestiges of the Cian O’Connor saga are, one by one, being dealt with.

GOLD medals counted for nothing in the Irish Horse Board Land Rover World Cup qualifier in Ballindenisk, Co Cork, yesterday as Neilus O’Donoghue gave a lesson in composure to triple Olympic champion Matt Ryan.

A SEISMIC shift in the bureaucratic set up of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland is on the cards when it holds its 2001 AGM next Tuesday.

THE old parliament hadn't seen so much activity since Theobald Wolfe Tone and Edmund Burke were pondering the French Revolution.