Bernard Allen’s culinary poser — “How do you unscramble a scrambled egg?” — is supremely apt to the situation of yet another ham-fisted attempt to transmogrify healthcare delivery into something resembling empathic efficiency and value for money.

Your editorial commentaries today (Apr 12) clearly conjure a starkly contrasting take on the innate qualities of Irishness, as manifest throughout various social realities and workplace tapestries (or should that be travesties?).

NOW that the Greens and a few independents have displayed a cute opportunism by upping the election stakes, we must stay our hand and try to think outside the box for a while.

BLACK Thursday was indeed a worryingly historic day. Selling our souls to the black hole for an indeterminate span leaves us all in the don’t-know zone.