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Jeremy Warner: Will the great interest rate gamble pay off?
In practice, he's proved anything but. Since arriving at the ECB, Mr Draghi has engineered a sort of Club Med putsch, sidelining the German hawks and embarking on the kind of unconventional monetary activism that for several years now has been the hallmark of the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England. He's been bold, and he's been decisive.
Alison O’Connor: How did we get to a place where spending up to €300 on a communion dress became an 'exceptional need'?
WHAT do First Holy Communion dresses and the tens of thousands earned by a Taoiseach's special adviser have in common? Well, in their own ways, both point to the extraordinary levels of financial entitlement that still exist in this bankrupt little nation of ours.
James Downey: Find 'plan B' on this pact or we'll live in debt forever
AMID all the fuss about Enda Kenny's "mad spending" remarks in Davos, something more relevant was almost entirely ignored. It can't be ignored any longer.
Martina Devlin: Think we're angry, Enda? You've seen nothing yet
LOOK around. Many of the people in your immediate vicinity are in a state of barely suppressed rage. One spark and up it flares -- disproportionate to the offence, perhaps, but that's how fury operates.
Jemima Lewis: The alpha females who play at being little women
BEING annoyed by Gwyneth Paltrow is the very definition of pointlessness – like railing against the existence of death, or buying anti-cellulite cream. Yet at times it’s impossible to resist.
Kevin Myers: What a glorious, wonderful, perfect mind Jon had; humane and patient. He was demanding of his students, and they gave richly in reply
THE chalk-streams and rivers of southern England are a paradise for anglers, that most patient and cerebral of all sportsmen.
James Dempsey: Not the sort of film you'd expect from the youngest of the Olsen sisters
TODAY marks the release of Martha Marcy May Marlene, the dark and twisted tale of a young woman’s escape from a violent sect that took Sundance by storm last year and has already made a cult star out of its beguiling heroine, Elizabeth Olsen.
Helen Moorhouse: I gorged on Borgen last night ... and today I have a hangover
Dear Sarah Lund, while The Killing has been away, I've been seeing someone else. She's not better than you, just different. I don't even know her that well yet – I haven't seen inside her jumper drawer. But she's a pint-sized firecracker in a too-tight suit. She's Birgitte Nyborg and I think I love her a little....
David Quinn: This intolerant secularism is a threat to liberty
AT its annual conference in April, Labour will debate probably the most obnoxious proposal to come before any party in a long time. It is contained in a document that is a swingeing attack on denominational schools. Senator Joe McCarthy of anti-communism fame would be proud of the recommendation. It says that senior civil servants in the Department of Education should be screened to ensure they are not "Catholics first and Irish second".
Ian O'Doherty: The Occupy crowd is destroying the little guy, not helping him
What do we want? Um, an end to nasty capitalism and, y'know, an end to the cuts and stuff.
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- Kevin Myers: How long before the stout bastions of the English Lawn Tennis Club fall to the assaults of abuse, whingeing and feminist curses?
- Crisitna Odone: Thanks Gwyneth ... at last we know what makes a happy family
- Robert Colville: The TripAdvisor hotels with a five-star critic in every room
- Aidan Coughlan: Just because you are touchy-feely about books doesn't mean you'll hate the Kindle
- Lise Hand: Baldemort unbroken -- even with pate above parapet
- Brendan Keenan: Yet again, Honohan proves that he isn't shy and retiring
- Improved Anglo-Irish relations are a lesson to all
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- Brendan Keenan: Fiscal treaty's complex rules may prove the only way to play
- Daniel Hannan: I'm a UK Tory with a special place in my heart for Ireland. Isn't it great how we're finally getting on?
- Kevin Myers: Dutch built barriers to avoid becoming part of North Sea. We must erect barriers or we become part of Grossdeutschland
- Matthew Norman: Obama has nothing to fear from this Republican freakshow
- James Lawton: The time has come for football to tear down its last taboo
- Johnny Fallon: Referendum call could be the defining moment for this Government .. and even Michael D.
- Ian O'Doherty: Well, that's considerate of them
- Lise Hand: No 'buddy-buddy' in the Dail as Enda is bruised by Gerry's digs
- Susan Lynch: I refuse to be pushed out of health service
- David McWilliams: EU has hit self-destruct button as world moves on
- Siobhan Creaton: Jailing bankers now even more of a dream
- Anne-Marie Walshe: It's not a mass exodus and it won't cause sea change for public sector
- Kevin Myers: 'A society that remembers never escapes past'
- Max Davidson: Game, set and match ... why tennis is the true gladitorial sport of our age
- Ollie Barrett: I remember playing rugby when the hangovers lasted longer than the knocks
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