Every year as Ireland puts the clocks back one hour at the end of October, we hear the arguments why Ireland should drop daylight saving time or why we should even align with mainland Europe and adopt Central European Time (CET).

CONTRARY to what Taoiseach Brian Cowen thinks, it wasn’t the amount of money spent by Declan Ganley or Libertas that led to a resounding no vote in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

THE opposition parties have claimed our economy is on “auto-pilot” following the release of the latest jobless figures.

I FEEL the whole energy and global warming debate in Ireland, and our response to it, displays a complete lack of joined-up logical thinking.