A man charged with murdering a prostitute in Thailand eight years ago was being questioned yesterday in connection with the frenzied stabbing of a mother outside her Dublin home.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 15-year-old Jamie Martin.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses in relation to the serious sexual assault of a special needs woman on Wednesday.

Gardaí in Dublin are renewing their appeal for information in connection with the disappearance of 75-year-old Patrick Cremin.

AROUND 1820, Thomas Jefferson, a highly intelligent and honest US president, said: “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretense of taking care of them”.

I UNDERSTSAND RTÉ needs to speak very carefully in order for the Government to keep giving it all our licence fees, but recently the station’s grovelling has been getting out of hand.

WHILE carrying out research recently, I came across this: “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the wellbeing of strangers, friends, or even family members.

I’VE just come to understand one of the main reasons for the approaching oil shortage here, and it’s easy to correct.

SO swine flu was yet another deadly pandemic that never materialised, exactly as I and many others have been saying for four or five months.

I READ that students who did not get quite enough points might still be considered for medical school if they later pass some semi-official Australian test but, conversely, might have 600 points and have a doctor for a father but be rejected if they fail it.

I WOULD like to quote Steven Weinberg, the Nobel-prize winning US physicist: “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.

MYSTERY surrounded the death of a Czech national yesterday after he was found in the boot of his car in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have seized heroin with a street value estimated at €250,000, it has emerged.

HOW Karl Marx must be chuckling. He wrote the following many years ago in Das Kapital: “Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take on more and more expensive debt, until their debt becomes unbearable.

I QUOTE: “Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you and when you lost, you charged it to the bank.

Gardaí investigating an assault in Dublin in the early hours of Monday, November 5, today issued a fresh appeal for information.

A YOUNG man was hospitalised yesterday after being attacked with a meat cleaver.

ONE of the many con tricks that the far right (Bush, Blair, etc) pull on us through their spin doctors is that they are something to do with freedom while the left is something to do with government control.

I READ recently that the Government is wilfully breaking agreed environmental laws.

SIMPLY sweetening up a diet can help people lose more weight, an Irish study shows.

A man has attacked three Dublin taxi drivers and robbed one of them in the last 24 hours.

GARDAÍ are hunting two con artists after they tricked over 50 people out of almost 50,000 by falsely sub-letting houses to them.