Back to business as usual.

He was ridiculed as the baby-faced candidate and dubbed the Confirmation Boy because of the photograph on his election posters.

Facing more music.

The Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, has expressed serious concerns about the mishandling by State agencies of the case of an 11-year-old girl who was subjected to repeated rape, sometimes at knife-point.

Barack Obama’s pastry chef and the co-founder of the world’s best restaurant are among a galaxy of global culinary giants on the menu for a major national festival next month.

WHEN I sat down to write this column, it was intended to be about Mary Davis — and most of it will be.

PHILIP Boucher-Hayes and Suzanne Campbell ‘s programme What’s Ireland Eating? opened a right ‘can of worms’ when it was shown on RTE some time ago.

IT might be one of the poorest summers on record but you know winter is certainly on its way when RTÉ launches its new season of TV programmes.

THE 10 most watched programmes on any channel in Ireland last year were all screened by the national broadcaster.

A TEENAGE boy yesterday broke down in tears as he recalled the final words he shared with Brian Rossiter, the 14-year-old who died after falling into a coma in garda custody.

LAST week there was trouble outside the Nigerian embassy in Dublin as people protested over difficulties in securing passports for which they have been grossly overcharged. Up to 70 people were protesting outside the embassy at Leeson Park.