A fireman yesterday described how he saw a five-year-old girl screaming “help, help, help my mom” as she stood in the street and beside her dying 27-year-old mother who had just sustained multiple stab wounds.

I don’t understand the Taoiseach’s refusal to support a reduction in Greece’s debt.

The Children and Family Relationships Act will remain on the statute books whether or not Irish people vote yes to same-sex marriage on May 22. This piece of legislation allows for adoption by same-sex couples and provides for guardianship. The referendum will seek to add the following clause to our Constitution:“Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex.”

The Government is still drowning in the water charge controversy. 

Tributes were paid yesterday to one of the country’s best known balladeers Robbie McMahon who helped popularise the Irish immigrant ballad, Spancil Hill.

The news that Ryanair has launched yet another takeover bid for Aer Lingus would ordinarily strike fear into the hearts and minds of the traveling public.

The news that the Government wish to sell its stake in Aer Lingus when conditions are ripe is deeply disappointing.

THE news that the German Bundestag got to examine the details of our budget before we got to hear the delectable details did not surprise me in the slightest.