THE Financial Regulator’s office was branded a “pathetic farce” by politicians as it emerged loans concealed by former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick had been even higher than the €87 million revealed.

I was pleased to read Senator Geraldine Feeney (October 24) on the bad manners and intolerance shown by pensioners in St Andrew’s Church in Dublin when they shouted down two ministers of state and a Green party speaker.

I WAS bemused to read Senator Geraldine Feeney’s comments (October 24) that she was “absolutely horrified” at the behaviour of older people who participated in the public meeting organised by Age Action to highlight their concerns at the Government’s decision to abolish the automatic entitlement to a medical card for over-70s.

HIS name is Harris, Eoghan Harris, and he’s on a one-man mission to put a sexy sizzle into the Seanad.

THE Oireachtas committee established to investigate issues raised by the striking down of the statutory rape law will hold its inaugural meeting today.

A national ’hygiene tzar’ is needed to clean up hospitals and stop patients picking up infections like MRSA, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.

There were extraordinary scenes at today's press conference for the publication of the Oireachtas Committee on Health report into the Travers inquiry on nursing home charges.

A former secretary general of the Department of Health could have been sacked three months before he was finally removed, Tánaiste Mary Harney revealed today.

THE Oireachtas Committee gathering evidence for the impeachment motion against Judge Brian Curtin has refused to adjourn its work for three months because of the judge’s medical state.