ALL the boys in the pub know that the debt facing us is unmanageable (over €300bn).

Road chiefs tonight refused to give a green light to people driving home for Christmas as the big freeze was poised to strike again.

Irish people should have the humility to remember they have been through tough times before, a Government minister suggested today.

SPRING may be here, and no real need to feed the birds, but the sight of a new species at the bird table sends me to buy another bag of peanuts, whatever the expense. Long-tailed tits are almost unheard of at bird feeders and so pretty and entertaining that I want to keep them coming. There’s a possessiveness to it — people with garden bird tables will know what I mean.

TO lose one chief executive of Aer Lingus may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like callousness.

IT WAS the dog that didn’t bark who decided it at the end of the day.

PRISONERS excavating a site near the biblical Armageddon uncovered what archaeologists said yesterday may be the Holy Land’s oldest church.

MINISTER for Health Micheál Martin said last night that his Cabinet colleague Martin Cullen’s public objections to the smoking ban galvanised support for the proposal.