It is simply unbelievable that a famous football club like Sunderland would appoint the well-known fascist Paolo di Canio as its manager.

SO Greece has a new prime minister — Lucas Papademos — and Italy looks to have a new one, too — Mario Monti.

WE have an awful lot of talk every day from the broadcasting stars in RTÉ – Marian Finucane, Pat Kenny, Ryan Tubrity and Joe Duffy – on how we might get the country out of the mess it is in.

I COMMEND the workers who staged the sit-in at Waterford Crystal. Workers’ pensions won’t be paid, yet the big bosses get their severance packages.

THE VHI’s massive premium hikes are not acceptable and one wonders who can defend the people tied into this totally unfair health system?