WHAT is it about the human condition that makes us deaf and blind to the promises of politicians at election time.

ON RTÉ’s Prime Time recently a Fianna Fáil deputy, Michael Mulcahy, said the gardaí had never been better resourced and never more numerous.

THE other morning here in Seattle, National Public Radio ran a piece on what the reporter referred to, in a quizzical tone, as the flood of immigration into Ireland in the last five years.