Whence comes the real danger to our freedom, religion and cause? From ourselves, our unwillingness to see the bigger picture, to hear John Donne’s threatening bell tolling for us — and refusal to grasp the nettle.

WELL done to the Greens on a successful annual convention. Sincere congratulations on real and substantial ministerial work well done. But therein lies the rub.

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern have decided to erect an e-border that will abolish the age-old common travel area between the two islands and, since 1922, the two states in this archipelago.

EXIT polls suggested that the Sinn Féin surge in the recent local elections was attributable in part to young, employed males, mainly from marginalised districts.