The 50th anniversary of the fall of Nelson’s Pillar on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, coming as it does on the centenary of the Easter Rising, provides a timely opportunity to replace the non-descript Spire, which currently occupies the former ground of the once-famous pillar.

PUBLIC spending by the Irish State has to be reduced substantially.

BOTH of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, that we will be asked to vote for tomorrow, are highly flawed.

THE Irish Family Planning Association would like children under the age of 16 to have greater access to contraceptives, arguing that “ambiguous” laws in this area (given that the age of consent in Ireland is 17) are putting young people at risk of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, they claim.