TEMPORA mutantur. Bankers, princes of private enterprise, race through the night to jump into the kindly arms of the nanny state.

THE Taoiseach recently indicated his preference for holding the forthcoming election on a Thursday.

IT is a very sad day for Ireland when a multinational giant like Shell Oil thinks it is in a position to exercise some kind of divine right to ride roughshod over the good and decent farmers of Rossport, Co Mayo.