THE sell-off of artefacts related to the 1916 Rising to private interests, many of them abroad, says a lot about the Government’s priorities today.

THE only good thing to emerge from the fiasco of the withdrawn ‘on-the-runs’ legislation is the implicit admission by the British government that its forces have committed crimes in Ireland for which they have not been brought to justice.

The US and Britain used the pretext of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including chemical weapons, as a justification for their invasion of Iraq.