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Letters: Upset at eating disorder nonsense

Sunday January 31 2010

Sir -- I feel slightly nauseous. I just finished Niamh Horan's article in Life magazine (Sunday Independent, Jan. 24, 2010) and I am extremely upset. .

Don't treat public servants as 'special'

Wednesday January 27 2010

JACK O'Connor of the ICTU encourages a work-to-rule and then has the brass neck to preach to the Government that it must not be "confrontational", as a consequence -- as though public servants represented by ICTU and its affiliates were some sort of special group of employees.

Smurfit chief backs slow, sustainable resurgence

Tuesday January 12 2010

THE Celtic Tiger may not roar again, but Europe could be at the beginning of a "slow, sustainable recovery", Smurfit Kappa boss Gary McCann has said.

Turning water into wine: Le Bon Crubeen

Saturday January 09 2010

Is it age? Is it a creeping cynicism? Why do I feel guilty when I tell you I'm glad the hype of the festive season is over? Maybe my formative years of watching Ebenezer Scrooge's conversion from grouch to a man bouncing with bonhomie, Christmas cheer and goodwill to his fellow man have left me uncomfortable with confessing to an occasional 'bah humbug'! Even though this year it all seemed more muted than in others,

Michael Brennan: Star player Lenihan shows true grit in face of ill health

Tuesday January 05 2010

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan went to a rugby-playing school and is a keen supporter of the Athlone Town soccer club.

NAMA will bring us to total ruin

Wednesday December 23 2009

While not wanting to be a doom merchant, I believe that Ireland Inc is going to go from crisis to total economic collapse.

Great and good ideas to reignite our failing economy

Shane Ross Sunday December 06 2009

THERE are still three days to go before Finance Minister Brian Lenihan delivers his Budget speech, and already the sparks are flying.

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Sunday December 06 2009

BATTERED and bewildered, the Cabinet will enter Leinster House next Wednesday to present one of the most important budgets in the history of the State. If ministers get it right, there is a possibility that the country will survive, even if the Government does not. If they get it wrong, Ireland will become the poor relation of the EU -- distressed, marginalised, and very likely broke.

Weak politicians hide behind tough talk

Thursday December 03 2009

SHOULD any of us really have been surprised when the news broke that public sector unions had agreed in principle with the Government to take some form of unpaid leave instead of the proposed pay cut of 6.75pc across the board (Irish Independent, December 2)?

Business leaders must roar disapproval from rooftops

Monday November 30 2009

THERE was something a little bit depressing about the sight of Department of Finance officials walking up and down the pavement outside the department's flashy new offices on St Stephen's Green last week.

Action is an exercise in futility for public sector

Sunday November 29 2009

THERE were 18,000 hospital appointments cancelled. Hundreds of thousands of schools closed. Government departments practically closed down and pickets were placed outside hospices.

Why we must bring back the death penalty

Tuesday November 17 2009

MR Justice Johnson's suggestion that the death penalty should be revisited has come at an apposite time. Murder sadly now gets the type of media attention that 20 years ago was afforded to mere assault. The taking of life has little meaning in a country on bended knee to the ill-informed chattering classes.