The loneliness of a long-distance runner is nothing compared to the isolation and fear experienced by the principal of a one-teacher school, the INTO annual congress has heard.

IN these times of austerity can anyone explain why the Government is spending €80,000 on a building and decides to stop using it even though the builders are still on site?

MEET Patricia O’Neill — the PDs’ secret weapon in the election campaign.

MINISTER of state Tom Parlon got it right when he said capping the value of development land is a policy initiative somewhere left of Stalin.

WE’VE had to endure interminable carping and endless anti-Government sniping from Fergus Finlay on your opinion page, for longer than I care to remember.