LABOUR Party leader Pat Rabbitte has admitted his attitude to the plight of the undocumented Irish in the US was hypocritical when compared to attitudes he had expressed on immigrants to Ireland.

ARE we now witnessing another somersault of the merger of Democratic Left and the Labour party?

AFTER the callous campaign of personal vilification against the Taoiseach, as a rank-and-file Fianna Fáil member I appeal to all my party colleagues to close ranks, bury our animosities and embrace our political heritage.

THE trauma of the past 35 years has led many people to believe the North has failed as a political entity, and to recognise that democracy cannot exist in a fundamentally artificial unit.

HAUGHEY. I must confess I got marginally more enjoyment watching paint dry.

CONOR LENIHAN, TD, more to be pitied than laughed at.

THE events of the past year have been traumatic for men and women who have given a lifetime of service to the American forces.

THE Labour leader, Pat Rabbitte, has criticised the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, over his failure to state clearly whether to set out the legal underpinning for the electronic voting.

HE was surrounded by pygmies and parasite mavericks who were bankrupt and were in sharp contrast to the ineffectiveness and bewildering incompetence for a hindrance and search for solution.

TO say that the Northern unionist must feel a sense of abandonment would be an understatement.

AS there would seem to be some confusion, and not a few mischievous observations, regarding the fate of Fianna Fáil, may I inform the knowledgeable correspondents who would seem to have such a reservoir of knowledge and destiny for where the party is going.

WORKERS in every sector of Irish Industry today are labouring under the shadow of an uncertain future.

IT is surely time that hardline unionists like Jeffrey Donaldson and Ian Paisley had a hard look at their political traditions and re-examined them to see where they have gone wrong in the past.

HAVE the powers-that-be in RTÉ gone over the edge? Will we be accused of living in Utopia

THE urgency of a speedy and radical approach to our immediate difficulties is there for all to see.

WOULD it be too much to ask the Opposition to deal in hard facts rather than mere speculation?

SIR John Stevens has said he has found evidence of widespread collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in the murder of Catholics in Northern Ireland.