The strategic reason Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil sat out the presidential election, is that tactically they did not want to arrive with either injuries or red cards for the real game that starts tomorrow.

It’s one of life’s great pleasures, listening to ideas with which you profoundly disagree, writes Terry Prone

With US Republicans sharply split over a front-runner they cannot unite behind, a new group is trying to push the country’s top elected Republican, Paul Ryan, into the White House race.

US Catholic Church today began the holiest week of its year with its leading cleric promising to get tough on child-abusing priests.