LOOK up ‘urgent’ in any standard dictionary and it will offer definitions such as ‘compelling’ or ‘requiring immediate action or attention’. Peruse the concise Noonan-Kenny lexicon and you find such turgid phrases as ‘interdepartmental groups’ and ‘no definite timeline’. Their dictionary is small. In it, ‘cleanliness’ is actually next to ‘godliness’. The Government’s massive majority

Deputy Willie O’Dea has stated that the Government have attacked the most vulnerable in society in the Budget and made a mockery of many of their pre-election promises. Deputy O’Dea said, “In relation to Child Benefit, the announcement that the rate for the third and subsequent children are to be standardised makes a mockery of Labour’s