Why are State schools still saying prayers at the beginning of each day? In a secular society, this should be prohibited, considering the huge ethnic changes in population over the last 20 years.

THE budget will be soon upon us and one of the more progressive ideas I have seen put forward is the sugar tax.

THE way Seán O’Rourke interviewed Willie O’Dea on RTÉ’s News at One last Thursday was by far the best I have ever heard.

The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States is a wonderful achievement and a lesson to us all that the impossible is truly possible.

I’M very pleased to see ‘Deregulation’ Commissioner Charlie McCreevy finally being put under pressure in Europe for the huge part he has played in freeing the markets here and throughout the rest of the EU as much as possible from government regulation.