The bishops were quick out of the blocks last week to smite the proposed referendum on same-sex marriage.

The Mahon Tribunal has been a watershed and the kind of corruption it exposed could not happen again, as Irish society would not tolerate it, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said.

HE hasn’t always been painted in a good light but a master of strokes can change impressions.

ALL the eminent scientists in town to hear Professor Stephen Hawking are clearly having an effect on Padraig Flynn.

FACING financial ruin, political ostracism and a lifetime of labelling as the TD who encouraged tax evasion, Beverly Flynn might have been forgiven for leaving the Supreme Court yesterday through a back door and behind blackened car windows.