A LIMERICK prisoner representing himself in a trial for assault causing harm to six Cork Prison officers asked the jury to look beyond the fact he was a prisoner and they were officers.

AS A commercial fisherman facing the dole as a result of the proposed government ban on eel fishing, I am fed up with this banana republic.

I’VE tried to interpret a recent Fianna Fáil press release so that it might make sense to the average mug in the street.

WERE our unfortunate citizens members of any other democratic state, public anger would force the resignation of all the collective amnesia participants who have lied about the infamous meeting with Tom Gilmartin.

FINANCE MINISTER Charlie McCreevy has the effrontery to stand before the Dáil and express alarm at the €100 million odd cost of the various tribunals of inquiry into the corruption of his former associates in government.