David Looby Eileen Dunne is a national treasure.
FROM Kiev to O'Connell Street, a gathering of 100,000 angry protestors is bad news for any government and definitely not good for our current incumbents who are quickly running out of time to win back the confidence of a dour and disillusioned electorate.
Time was when stonemasons were plentiful. Squads of 40 masons (or more) were called up to work on major sites such as St. Peter's College in Wexford or the Catholic parish church in New Ross. Here was a skill in wide demand up to the Great War, before advances in building technology consigned the trade to the redundant ranks shared with the ploughman and cattle drover... Or did it?
The good woman returned home from a hen party on Sunday afternoon to the sounds of 'Dancing at the Crossroads' blasting from the upstairs window.
The schools are off and summer is well and truly here, as minds turn toward holidays, home or abroad, for a matter of weeks or day trips.
Readers will recall how members of Sinn Féin drew some flak from Cllr Malcolm Byrne for the way in which the tricolour was deployed during election celebrations earlier this summer.
Like any good performer, Cllr. Denis Kennedy had his prop ready to hand as prepared to do his turn at Monday's council meeting in Carricklawn.
Wednesday: The good woman told me she wanted to blindfold me tonight.
In June 2012 I wrote in this column about the situation in Syria, at which point the death toll had reached 19,000. In April this year I again wrote about Syria and the death toll had reached 70,000. This is my third piece on Syria and the death toll has exceeded 100,000.
Dear Sir, I wish to take issue with what Ger Walsh has written in his article 'Church's predictable abortion reaction, but have they really thought it through'.
The Chairperson of the Wexford Branch of the National Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (NCHWT) has defended the effectiveness of a recent demonstration, despite it being illegal and mainly affecting other ordinary citizens who were just trying to go about their business.
ANNE CARTON runs one the county's oldest family run auctioneering firms, P N O'Gorman Ltd.
'Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water' – the famous tag-line from the 'Jaws' films sprung to mind last week when the Boston Marathon bombing hit the news.
'THE LABOURER deserves his wages' is a familiar phrase from the Gospels that was uttered by Christ and repeated by St Paul in his letters. Those five words stand as the foundation of Catholic Social Teaching, and I remember well being lectured about it in college, and hearing about Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, and Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus.
ENNISCORTHY shopkeepers trading in the centre of the town have experienced a fall in the number of customers darkening their doors recently. So what could be the reason for the drop in business? The worldwide recession compounded by the collapse of the Irish financial system might have something to do with it: they admit that.
A FRUSTRATED reader was in touch to complain about the number of people who seem to have forgotten how to cross the road safely.
