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There have not been many great days for Cavan senior football teams in recent times but yesterday was certainly one of them.
Rate 'trap' denies us a functioning housing market
GOT a tracker? Stay put, don't move, even if you need to relocate.
Our neutrality in WWII put women 20 years behind on emancipation
Since Alan Shatter stewarded through the Dail the pardon for (and apologies to) those Irish soldiers who had joined the Allies during World War II, the question of our neutrality in 1939-45 has again been raised in the public realm.
John Bruton: Rules governing business need to be relaxed
I BELIEVE that, across the western world, we may be reaching some sort of limit in the complexity of rules governing business. The response to the financial crisis has been ever more complex rules that only a tiny number of professional advisers could ever hope to remember, or understand properly.
Champs to chumps – let's face music and forsake this painfest
Cringe. The annual Eurovision Song Contest post-mortem is under way, and it is even more depressing this year given our dismal performance in Malmo on Saturday night. Oh the pain of coming 'Paddy last'.
Shatter would be first to stick the boot in if it were on the other foot
ALAN Shatter has landed himself in a right mess and it's entirely of his own making. Tempting as it might be to cite Albert Reynolds's line about how, in politics, you trip up over the little hurdles, it doesn't even apply here.
- Fiach Kelly: Who else's name was thrown out at meeting between Shatter and Gardai?
- Shatter has questions to answer on Wallace case
- Pragmatism by banks on tracker mortgages must be welcomed
- Onus on minister to reassure public
- Hardly a tear shed for honest farmers as crisis pushes many over the edge
- Charlie Weston: Rate 'trap' denies us a functioning housing market
- Shane Coleman: Shatter would be first to stick the boot in if it were on the other foot
- Mary Kenny: Our neutrality in WWII put women 20 years behind on emancipation
- Eugene McGee: Focus on youth starting to pay off for resurgent Cavan
- Miriam Donohoe: Champs to chumps – let's face music and forsake this painfest
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Shatter has questions to answer on Wallace case
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Pragmatism by banks on tracker mortgages must be welcomed
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Political class get their just deserts
The starkest feature of today's Millward Brown opinion poll is the icy disdain the electorate have displayed for the political class of 2013. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael may continue to be the best supported of the Irish political parties. But, as both languish in the doldrums of the low to mid 20 per cent mark – where they hang between mediocrity and annihilation, neither attracting nor securing support – a disillusioned electorate has implicitly rejected them. And though Sinn Fein and the independents may grin hungrily over their somewhat more impressive showings, the true market value of the support these enfants terribles have secured by default is compromised by their status as vulture parties who prey on the crie de couer of despair.
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Columnists
Charlie Weston: Rate 'trap' denies us a functioning housing market
Shane Coleman: Shatter would be first to stick the boot in if it were on the other foot
Mary Kenny: Our neutrality in WWII put women 20 years behind on emancipation
Eugene McGee: Focus on youth starting to pay off for resurgent Cavan
[TICON-A VIDEO] Miriam Donohoe: Champs to chumps – let's face music and forsake this painfest
Ruth Dudley Edwards: Sex victims see price of craven unwillingness to face facts
Shane Coleman: Shatter would be first to stick the boot in if it were on the other foot
ALAN Shatter has landed himself in a right mess and it's entirely of his own making. Tempting as it might be to cite Albert Reynolds's line about how, in politics, you trip up over the little hurdles, it doesn't even apply here.
Miriam Donohoe: Champs to chumps – let's face music and forsake this painfest
Cringe. The annual Eurovision Song Contest post-mortem is under way, and it is even more depressing this year given our dismal performance in Malmo on Saturday night. Oh the pain of coming 'Paddy last'.
John Bruton: Rules governing business need to be relaxed
I BELIEVE that, across the western world, we may be reaching some sort of limit in the complexity of rules governing business. The response to the financial crisis has been ever more complex rules that only a tiny number of professional advisers could ever hope to remember, or understand properly.
Charlie Weston: Rate 'trap' denies us a functioning housing market
[TICON-A VIDEO] Brendan O'Connor: He took what life he had and made it matter
Eugene McGee: Focus on youth starting to pay off for resurgent Cavan
Colm McCarthy: Retirement age must rise by eight or 10 years
Paul Moran: Labour still between rock and a hard place
John-Paul McCarthy: Aras needs an austerity of a different stripe
Kim Bielenberg: Irish politicians more than a match for Obama when it comes to comedy routines
It is not normally the job of a statesman, but President Obama showed promise as a funny man when he had them rolling in the aisles at the recent White House Correspondents’ dinner.
Lawrence Summers: The lessons of Reinhart-Rogoff
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Seamus Coffey: Ireland is not in a position to move to zero austerity
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