THE recession has created a more savvy brand of consumer, where price overrides convenience, household budgeting is more commonplace and where customers are more willing to complain.

CELIA LARKIN, the former partner of ex-taoiseach Bertie Ahern walked away with just more than €14,000 last year for her membership of the board of the National Consumer Agency (NCA)

Connell’s emergence as a headline-maker once again in the last few weeks is a reminder that he was appointed Archbishop of Dublin at a time when he was the last person the Catholic church needed precisely because he was inflexible and driven by his belief in absolute truths