Perhaps we should look to other countries for alternative solutions for managing our water and waste services? My sister told me how it was done in India in the 1970s (she was there for 10 months). Pigs on the streets ate the organic human waste they found.

A COUPLE of suggestions for the upcoming budget:

I WELCOME the recently published report Entry to Higher Education in the 21st Century by Áine Hyland. Many thoughtful suggestions for reform are included.

WHAT an utter contradiction it is that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has been given to US President Barack Obama who recently made a much criticised decision to send a further 30,000 human beings to kill or be killed in an increasingly futile war in Afghanistan.

THE Greens have shown themselves to be not only ‘flaky’, but utterly naive and inept in their negotiations with the wily Fianna Fáilers and, worse than that, just as unprincipled and hypocritical as their new masters.