Joe Costello and Jan O’Sullivan will definitely find opening their Christmas presents a bit of an anti-climax. They got their gifts early with news of

According to Taoiseach Enda Kenny, he put his case firmly on the table when he went into the recent EU summit in Brussels. To judge

There is a waiver from payment of the household charge for owners of residential property located in the following prescribed unfinished housing estates in Limerick

The words of Jonathan Swift should have been echoing in our ears last week as we anticipated both the Budget and the latest EU Council

WHAT is it about this Government and appointments? Last week it had to endure the indignity of seeing its efforts to have Kevin Cardiff appointed

‘It’s the economy, stupid,” has become one of the most famous political phrases of the past few decades. It is attributed to James Carville, the

As we watch the developments in Greece and the pressure being applied by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy on Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and

If you told me a month or two ago that Fianna Fail would come second in the Dublin West constituency I would have thought you

By this day next week we will know who our next President is. Despite the polls in recent days, I remain convinced that the outcome

I had originally intended to use this week’s column to look at how the presidential election campaign was going. I had planned to throw my