AMID all the deserved celebration, there has to be some sober and hard-headed analysis of our Olympic performance.

IT is a rags-to-riches tale that without skilled intervention could yet end in tears for Sean Quinn.

HELP! Our truth-seeking Taoiseach is missing in the news jungle withonly a hugely expensive, full-time team of lackeys in his media monitoring unit to try and keep him abreast of what’s going on.

Gay rights campaigners tonight hit-out at a cross party Oireachtas report on the family claiming it had missed the opportunity to push for equal rights for same-sex and heterosexual couples.

THE Irish Examiner/Lansdowne opinion poll gives further credence to the widespread view among political parties that Dublin will be the bear pit of the next election campaign.