IT is incredible that the Minister of Justice and Law Reform, a good speaker of Irish, would even consider, not to mind propose, the cancellation of a long-established regulation requiring for the gardaí a reasonable working knowledge of Irish.

FOUR political parties wisely see nothing wrong with granting Mary McAleese a further term as president.

POST-GRADUATE students at an overcrowded teacher training college are paying up to €5,000 a year to be taught in prefabs.