As the policy direction of the State reinforces a ruinous societal gap between the rich and the poor, will the Government change tack, asks Dr Colm O’Doherty

Sport has got it badly wrong in the new reality where people are going to count every cent, and the era of building big stadia, and expecting to charge high prices to fill them, is over.

I WOULD have loved to have watched Andrew Wray’s face when he wrote his letter (Friday, July 17) about the cause of this recession.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has defended the Government’s economic record after being compared by the Labour leader to a “rabbit caught in the headlights”.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is utterly out of his depth in his current role in charge of the nation’s purse strings, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore claimed today.