The Dáil has finished for summer but all the parties have ample food for thought, says Paul O’Brien.

TO the casual observer it might have appeared that the women of Cork — and quite a few men — had suddenly and en masse become madly interested in the antics of a seemingly demented leader of the Labour Party.

Health Minister Micheál Martin has praised the Taoiseach’s performance in the witness box at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday evening.