Michael Clifford says John Bruton’s call to avoid scapegoating individuals is a bit rich considering the elite has made no gesture of reparation to the public

HE was a millionaire in his 20s, lost it all, and reinvented himself as one of the country’s best-known adventurers.

HE became Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party without an election, and now Gordon Brown has lost his job after failing in the biggest electoral test of his life.

CHINA’S Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said the chief US climate negotiator either lacks common sense or is “extremely irresponsible” for saying that no US climate financing should be going to China.

Munster’s rugby Academy isn’t just a window to the future — it’s a key ingredient for ongoing success for the province. In the last of a four-part series on the up-and-comers vying for Munster’s Academy player of the year award, back-row Eoghan Grace spoke with Alan Good.

ARGENTINA’S World Cup star Felipe Contepomi is ready to launch another team towards tournament glory this weekend.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Today, and every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership. Let him know what you think and he’ll argue the toss with you.

An ancient map unveiled next week may prove that it was a Chinese eunuch who discovered America and not Christopher Columbus, it was revealed today.

THE positive economic performance of the US economy can only benefit Ireland, according to Austin McCabe, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland.

SPECULATION about the relationship of the Taoiseach and his partner Celia Larkin intensified yesterday after Ms Larkin was absent from a lunch for the visiting German president.

THE story sounds extraordinary - but then Michael D Higgins is no ordinary politician.