It was with a very real sense of journalistic integrity then, reader, that I too undertook my task, shackled to a very sick head

HELLO, how are you old chap?

RURAL areas would be affected significantly by spending cuts recommended in the Bord Snip report which include the closure of at least half the country’s garda stations and up to 1,000 small primary schools.

LIKE the old ladies cackling as they did their knitting at the foot of the guillotine in revolutionary France, Mary Coughlan cut an unrepentant figure as she sliced the life out of parliamentary democracy.