HAVING been reduced to tears by the Taoiseach’s famous interview with Brian Dobson on RTÉ news last year, I pity Bertie Ahern having to exist on a mere €310,000 annual salary (plus expenses, driver, jet, make-up, etc) which he has been forced to accept.

IT is the height of hypocrisy for Fine Gael, the employers’ group IBEC, the Small Firms’ Association and other conservative elements to bemoan the decision of Aer Lingus to end its Shannon-Heathrow connection.

I’M disappointed that the Labour Party appears to be ruling out co-operation with Sinn Féin on Dublin city council.

DR FINTAN LANE languishes in Limerick Prison and looks set to be kept there over Christmas, as a result of participating in a peaceful protest at Shannon airport.

THE UUP has adopted fish and chips as a symbol of Britishness. How ironic then that David Trimble thinks that he was codded by republicans, when he bears sole responsibility for the latest one that got away.