Syria isn’t the problem, the power of veto vested in permanent members of the UN Security Council is.

Given that thousands of decent hardworking people in the private sector are suffering through no fault of their own, they have every right to be angry.

At the risk of appearing pedantic (pedantic? moi? never!)

THIS has been doing the rounds: It is a soft day in a small Irish town. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

NOW that the Sinn Féin árd fheis has been addressed by a man whose son was murdered by the UVF, dare we hope that its next árd fheis will be addressed by a man whose son was murdered by the Provisional IRA?