Irish Examiner view: Back in the news

Eighty-six year-old Silvio Burlesconi is intensive care and is also believed to have been diagnosed with leukemia. Picture: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

After a long hiatus, Silvio Berlusconi is back in the headlines he once dominated.

The Italian, 86, is in intensive care, fighting a lung infection, and it has also been disclosed that he has been living with leukaemia for some time.