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Brendan Keenan : Brendan Keenan: Forecasts, predictions and models drive us to distraction
LEMME tell you about my week. Two ESRI reports, one IMF report, one Central Bank report and a stress test. And I'm not talking about the banks.
Kevin Myers : Kevin Myers: Scourge of ragwort confirms mass-defection by our state agencies from the rule of law
Ragwort is now our primary crop. Its growth paralleled the emergence of the term 'site' to describe a field
Charlie Weston : Charlie Weston: Mortgage mis-selling complaints non-existent
NOT one person has complained to the Financial Services Ombudsman about being mis-sold a mortgage.
David McWilliams : David McWilliams: Selling off state assets on the cheap is just madness
This Government will not contemplate selling property just in case it would bankrupt the banks. The State's argument is that the market is depressed so if we were to sell the land, we would not get a fair price for it.
Ian O'Doherty : Ian O'Doherty: Really? You don't say!
The controversy over the 90,000 military documents released on Wikileaks the other day won't go away any time soon -- although judging by the performance of the rather odd, belligerent and defensive founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, at his press conference, more is yet to come.
Vincent Hogan : Vincent Hogan: Walsh puts 'lack of intensity' down to tiredness
Cork are about to find out more about themselves than a year of MRIs could ever tell them.
Eugene McGee : Eugene McGee: O'Gara makes his mark but Dubs still lack consistency
WE had a rather strange situation on Saturday when a large section of Hill 16 remained closed -- despite the fact that Dublin were playing a game to earn a spot in the last eight of the All-Ireland senior football championship.
Ian O'Doherty : Ian O'Doherty: So, who's the racist now?
Here's a yarn you may have missed. A black Obama official, Shirley Sherrod, was caught on tape telling a crowd that she had once brought a white farmer to 'one of his own' -- a white lawyer -- rather deal with him herself.
Vincent Hogan : Vincent Hogan: A heavenly talent with Dante's anger in his head
THERE is a corner of Heaven today getting pulled, kicking and screaming, down to the local Jam Pot.
Shane Ross : Shane Ross: ESB boss fails O'Leary test
TWO mighty Irish companies rose above the radar last week.
Martina Devlin : Martina Devlin: City of Literature title is an asset we can bank on
LITERATURE is a lengthy conversation which has preoccupied us here in Ireland since ancient times - since the days of the seanchai, the druids and the Celtic warriors whose exploits fuse history and mythology. It's our weapon of mass distraction.
Ian O'Doherty : Ian O'Doherty: Now there's an unlikely ally
As someone who was brought up to despise Shamrock Rovers -- let's face it, anyone who supports another Irish club will always list Rovers as the team they love to hate -- it's only fair to commend them for their recent turn around.
Kevin Myers : Kevin Myers: The child must come first, last and foremost in all matters of adoption. It's not hard to grasp
THIS column is about same-sex marriage and adoption rights. So let me ask you some questions:
Kevin Myers : Kevin Myers: Almost from independence, we abandoned our duty to defend
Fifty years ago today, Irish troops on UN duty were landing in the Congo, and though much of the Ireland of 1960 is gone, a few things survive from that time.
Peter Bills : Peter Bills: Disjointed Springboks vent fury at ref justice
Irish referee George Clancy followed his fellow countryman Alain Rolland into South Africa's bad books with his first performance in a Tri-Nations match, at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.
Ian O'Doherty : Ian O'Doherty: Oh no they don't (think, that is)
Are you a parent who believes in tight control over what your child is exposed to? Or, even better, are you the kind of person who thinks that Punch And Judy provides a dangerous influence to children and is therefore offensive and should be banned?
Vincent Hogan : Vincent Hogan: McCarthy strikes killer blow for Cork
A game that will be remembered as little more than a flower arrangement tossed our way in the preamble to an epic.
Gene Kerrigan : Gene Kerrigan: Clown politics rule and the joke's on us
WhosE side of the Fine Gael fight are you on -- Lucinda or Enda? Will Michael McDowell climb out of his political coffin and bite our necks all over again? And has Frank Fahey got it right about Nama? These are just some of the questions raised last week that don't matter a damn.
Colum Kenny : Colum Kenny: No amount of 'good news' stories will lift this burden
It was a grouchy, petulant comment. But if you still do not understand how we ended up with our banks running amok, and weak financial regulation, then listen to what Taoiseach Brian Cowen said last week.
Ruth Dudley Edwards : Ruth Dudley Edwards: Black may be brash, but he shouldn't be demonised
'Inmate 18330424 -- Black, Conrad M', explained an email from the inmate-messaging service on Wednesday evening, 'no longer has access to the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System; therefore, he/she may not send or receive messages.'
