Sixty days-plus after we elected them to run the country, our 158 TDs in the Dáil can’t agree on the formation of a government. If this situation prevails, what then? Another election? What chance has that but to produce a similar indecisive outcome. An election will change little and merely serve to prolong the tedious political shenanigans we are now experiencing, from all sides.

IT is pathetic to listen to the incessant empty apologies of various religious groups who were charged with the care of vulnerable children in our society. The chronicle of abuse is almost beyond belief. But it did happen, and it happened in our community.

THERE are 31 primary-level gaelscoileanna in Dublin. However there are only eight second-level gaelscoileanna, or gaelcholáistí in the county.

SHOCK, horror, heavens above and save us from all harm, what is the world coming to — our Taoiseach uttered a profanity.

FINE GAEL and Labour proposed a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach in the Dáil last September. It was defeated. There is a six-month moratorium on repeating the same motion so that we wouldn’t be bored even more rigid by the proceedings in that assembly of fine oratory. Last weekend saw the most personalised attack yet on the Taoiseach in a concerted media movement by opposition leaders Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore. The Taoiseach had just left for a five-day state visit to South Africa. It is beyond comprehension that the opposition leaders did not know about this, so we must assume the offensive was timed to coincide with the Taoiseach’s absence.