WHAT a conundrum. What a bother. What a pickle and a palaver. Frankly, we need to talk about Kazuo.

Last week, we heard a powerful, well-connected individual was apparently being subjected to “Kafkaesque” treatment by the State. The claim reeked of hyperbole, and lacked all credibility.

A High Court judge has suggested that a case in which a father of six was barred from entering the street where he lived as a result of legal proceedings he knew nothing of had Kafkaesque overtones.

BETWEEN 1914 and 1915, the Jewish Czech writer, Franz Kafka, wrote the mesmerising novel, The Trial.

If gardaí had access to records then the scandal may have been prevented, says Cormac O’Keeffe.

The Investigation

The notion that we live in a true democracy is a joke, judging by the response by Government, gardaí, and parts of the media to suspected bug at GSOC offices, says Michael Clifford

Prague Christmas Markets including overnight in Dublin

For Peter Capaldi, becoming Doctor Who is likely to be a dream-come-true.

Jiri Sliva credits his success to a series of chance meetings, says Tina O’Sullivan

The Nine Lives of Otto Katz

WELL, you’re probably familiar with the story but we’ll air it again anyway.

A MAN accused of stealing a priceless first edition work of Shakespeare arrived at court dressed in Highland tartan yesterday.

Tributes poured in for English Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter who died aged 78.

The Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter has died, his second wife confirmed today.

HERE’S a little sample, expressed as articles of faith, of the type of questions which Sinn Féin would only be too happy to answer, I’m sure.

The city of Prague paid tribute to its most renowned literary son today, unveiling a monument to Franz Kafka.

SOUTH African novelist JM Coetzee was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature yesterday.