IF we as a nation want to reclaim our language, the best thing we could do is to offer students schooled through English a high points course in purely conversational Irish.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern says we’ve now ‘emerged from the shadow of the gunman,’ and his party, after a lapse of 35 years, wants to reclaim and commemorate ‘the real spirit’ of 1916 with a military parade.

PRESIDENT Bush can’t genuinely expect us to believe that he is pro-life while he continues to urge his army on to kill for America and die for freedom.

SMOKERS unhappy with the ban argue they should have the right to choose when and where they can smoke. Their argument holds no sway because as addicts they have no choice.