Newstalk has reported that experimental drug trials were conducted on at least 290 children across 10 mother-and-baby homes in the 1960s and 70s.

The balls were hardly out of the drum last Saturday evening when Pat Gilroy’s inbox began to swarm with celebratory text messages.

Things are so bad in ground flat number 16, even the dog has had a bout of pneumonia.

CALLED after a contemplative order of nuns living across College Road is Cork’s St Clare’s Avenue, marking the quiet presence of the Poor Clares Monastery.

I HOLD no brief for John O’Donoghue but are we not witnessing “trial by media and mob justice” in the way he has been made resign?

YOUR columnist Matt Cooper (March 8) declared that Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Brian Cowen “effortlessly demolished Enda Kenny’s attacks on him for propping up Ahern, flooring a visibly distressed Kenny with his comment ‘you are neither qualified nor able’ to judge Ahern”.