A report in a Sunday newspaper last week said that up to six big garda stations around Dublin could be closed in a review. This could be good news but it probably won’t be.

Suppose they invented a form of personal transport that wasn’t a car. Suppose it took up a fraction of the space of a car. Suppose it used a fraction of the fuel of a car. Suppose it got you to work and back in a fraction of the time it takes a car.

BY the time you read this England could be on their way to winning the World Cup or be on their way home with the tails between their legs. That is the fate of the weekly journalist.

IRELAND had a close shave during the life and times of Charlie Haughey. We nearly succumbed to a version of the ‘big man’ political cultures that have caused such havoc in Latin America and Africa.

VERY few people will have emerged with any credit after the statutory rape law fiasco. The Supreme Court made a complete hash of it. The demonstrators were out to bounce the Government into a quick fix – mobbery, really.

THE UPROAR group from Portmarnock have fought a tough battle against the second runway at Dublin Airport and they must be given credit for their guts, work rate and staying power.

Every now and then there comes along something that changes humanity’s perspective of the world. Radio and television did this. Phones did it.

There’s a fatal flaw in the logic of why the new Garda Reserve is being introduced. The original reason for the Reserve was to bring the Gardai closer to the communities they serve.

There’s no doubt that the failure to build a national conference centre in Dublin’s is one of the top ten scandals of the last ten years.

A lot of people believe in evil. They believe that bad people do bad things because they’re bad. Anyone who says different is a pinko, liberal, commie, do-gooder.