Picture if you will the scene: a pathetic swathe of humanity queues outside a feeding station in Frankfurt for life-sustaining, foreign relief aid.

KILKENNY senior panellists Richie Doyle and Kieran Joyce have both been named in the starting 15 for the county’s intermediate team that do battle with Wexford in the Leinster IHC final in Nowlan Park tonight at 7.30pm.

MY call to welcome Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and for our nation finally to grow up and to recognise the false nature of our national memory, along with recognising the depth of our collective post-colonial psychosis (Letters, June 28) was met with the usual depressing juvenile guff.

COME back Queen Elizabeth, all is forgiven.

HE is not the messiah, but the “reform” gospel according to Matthew Elderfield, the new financial regulator, is like a drink of water in the desert to a population that has become almost immune to being lied to, waffled at, and generally abused by our political system.

TAX-TAKE down. NAMA held up. Euro down. National debt up. CAO places down. Unemployment up. Steady as she goes. We’ve turned a corner. Which way is up again?

IT would seem that nailing jelly to a wall would be easier than establishing accountability for our banking failure. How do you prove a nod?

THE emerging consensus among the national broadsheet newspapers around support for the Government is becoming unseemly.