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Provisional licence-holders told to eat cake

INFAMOUSLY, when told that the French people could not afford bread, e Queen Marie Antoinette suggested that they eat ‘cake’. (Factually: ‘brioche’ — a form of pastry — but not for the last time, the media ‘spun’ the story. Maybe over-baked it).

Tara decision could be Bertie’s legacy

The Liberator’s lesson for embattled Bertie

Emotional return to the killing fields

Hospital taskforce underestimates the numbers

Action call on ecumenism

Home Rule was law, so who needed the Rising?

IN a speech at the National Museum last Sunday, and later on radio, the Taoiseach said the core justification for the 1916 Rising was that it asserted the right of Ireland to self-government.

Tue, 11 Apr, 2006

Church leaders are confused on celibacy issue

ÁILÍN QUINLAN, (Irish Examiner, January 23) is a little unfair to Christianity and the Catholic Church.

Sat, 28 Jan, 2006

Irish general who stood by his men to the bitter end

I WISH to congratulate you on your anniversary review of the Battle of the Somme (Irish Examiner, June 27-29).

Sat, 07 Jan, 2006

Nay-sayers give game away to the pick-handles

Is the glass half-empty or half-full?

Thu, 09 Jun, 2005

Cardinal error

CONGRATULATIONS to Noel Whelan on a superb column on the role of women in the Church (Irish Examiner, April 14). I can almost forgive him his politics! The key point he makes is that cardinals do not have to be priests.

Mon, 25 Apr, 2005