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Sinking into a debt crisis
THE personal misery that comes with recession is spelled out in a major study of incomes and living standards reported today. With 420,000 people on the dole, and the number increasing by 13,000 each month, Irish consumers are sinking deeper into debt, with mortgages, credit cards and other personal loans.
Injustice will cost us dearly
THE matter of Thierry Henry's cheating is very serious. It is not just about the feelings of the Irish team and fans, or the integrity of the game, or setting a poor example to children -- although all those things are important.
Pay caps are just a distraction
THE Minister for Finance's spat with Allied Irish Bank over the salary of its new managing director is evidence, if any were needed, that what ought to be a considered national conversation is in danger of descending into a national shouting match.
Mixed signals on Middle East
MIXED signals from the United States on Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank are helping to undermine prospects of a resumption of Middle East peace talks.
The worst kind of example
DOWN through the decades of this State's existence, it has relied heavily on the arduous and selfless work of the small number of people who run the administration. For much of the period, this work was not well rewarded. But in recent times their lot has improved greatly.
Good luck and good work
WHEN the Malahide viaduct collapsed three months ago, most users of the local commuter services and of the Dublin-Belfast rail service did not expect the structure and the track to be repaired before the New Year. But the repairs went ahead briskly, and yesterday the trains ran again.
The nightmare spiral of debt
On Wednesday, the Law Reform Commission will hold a conference which the Government cannot ignore. The commission will repeat its demand for a non-judicial debt settlement system and the improvement of enforcement procedures by the establishment of a centralised office.
Library still a closed book
WHAT a great idea. And what a credit to the people of Rush, Co Dublin, and the Fingal County Council. They saved the 18th-century St Maur's Church from demolition and converted it into a library, with 20,000 books and 3,000 audio-visual items.
Elderly should not live in fear
THE brutal beating to death of 78-year-old Finbarr Fahy is a reminder of how vulnerable are elderly people living alone in rural areas. A reminder too, that the wickedness of those for whom life is cheap is not confined to urban ghettoes and back streets.
The right thing for this country
IT is official. The eurozone came out of recession in the third quarter of the year. Miniscule growth is not enough to bring the people of Germany, France and Italy out onto the streets cheering and waving flags, but it shows, as Brian Lenihan might say, that there can be light at the end of the tunnel.
Inside Editorial
- Humanity at its best and worst
- The dangers are very real
- Ministers must adjust too
- End designer outrage
- Danger of the long finger
- Taking the tough decisions
- Berlin and the brave new world
- Mortgage nightmare
- For whom the fines toll
- Healthy outlook for Obama
- Stop talking, it's time for action
- Controlling our destiny
- Now it's back to business
- Feeling the pain of HSE foolery
- Let's remember the real victims
- A crime of rats, not of tigers
- For God's sake get a move on
- A country at sixes and sevens
- Fighting the flu pandemic
- Badly needed: a dose of reality
- Last orders in rural areas
- The legal gravy train
- The real horror of Halloween
- A life-saving compromise
- GAA: it's called teamwork
Breaking News
- 03:12 Health care reforms vote in Senate
- 23:12 Hadron Collider gets started again
- 22:27 Injustice may help Blues: Hodgson
- 21:27 Strike prompts hospitals warning
- 20:22 Galileo bones to go on display
- 20:02 One killed in Miley tour bus crash
Top stories from Friday, 20.11.09
- 21:27 Strike prompts hospitals warning
- 19:17 Civil servants' £150m pay offer
- 18:47 Anger over lack of open dam warning
- 17:02 More rain for flood-hit communities
- 16:37 Saville report - more delays feared
Top stories from Friday, 20.11.09
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- 20:02 One killed in Miley tour bus crash
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Columnist Comments
• Kevin Myers: Armistice Day poppycock threatens our free speech
They started wearing the poppy on the BBC last week, midway through October, nearly a month before Armistice Day. They also ambushed the British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin.
• Ian O'Doherty: All hail Xenu. Or something
The Cult of Scientology is having a really, really bad week. They have been found guilty of fraud in France, and slapped with a large fine -- although given how expert they are at bilking money from the gullible morons who buy into their claptrap, they shouldn't have any problem raising it.
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