As executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O’Gorman is immediately recognisable as the man who passionately represents the disenfranchised. 

Islanders off the north west coast of Ireland became the first people to vote on the Lisbon Treaty today, with the most remote said to be on the verge of rejecting it.

A HEART-BROKEN mother launched a scathing attack yesterday on the country’s leading homeless charity, after hearing how her son died alone in an emergency shelter after a heroin overdose.

MARY Gallagher’s excellent letter on Orwell’s prediction of political correctness (Irish Examiner, May 2) in regard to the ‘New Word Order’ article (Irish Examiner, April 30) speculates that the thought police will follow the language police.