WHATEVER one thinks of how the Government is handling the economic crisis, there is widespread agreement that our leaders could be doing a better job in communicating with the rest of us about what is going on and what the future may hold for us.

Barack Obama set out fresh plans to reinvigorate the US economy, focusing on incentives to small businesses and recruitment to bring down what he called the “staggering” 10% unemployment rate.

Eco-friendly public work programmes could help revive the North’s stalling economy, it was claimed today.

THE contemptible arrogance of the Government seems to know no bounds. Last year, Eamon Ó Cuív announced that the name of Dingle was being changed to An Daingean on all road signs, whether the people of Dingle liked it or not.

TRUE humility goes with true greatness. Albert Einstein, living alone in a cottage at the end of a peninsula, was discovered by two men who set out to find him.

DANIEL O’HERLIHY, an Oscar-nominated character actor whose 50-year career extended from the Irish stage to television and Hollywood movies, has died aged 85.

Daniel O’Herlihy, an Oscar-nominated character actor whose 50-year career extended from the Irish stage to television and Hollywood movies including RoboCop, has died aged 85.

Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez are to star in a new film set in the 1930s and 40s called American Darlings.