We need fresh ideas -- not political posturing such as Eamon Gilmore's decision to remove our ambassador, writes Stephen J CostelloROSARY brigade to the right! Red rose brigade to the left! Nobody should be left standing in the centre. Good. Quick march!

THE government seems pretty happy and confident that no referendum will be needed on the so called fiscal compact. Avoiding a referendum solves a lot of problems in the short-term. There remain some risks; with a public showing high levels of support for

WHEN Enda Kenny delivered his stinging denunciation of the Vatican on July 20, the public response was overwhelmingly supportive. Mr Kenny, speaking in the Dáil, claimed the Cloyne Report into clerical child sexual abuse had exposed "the dysfunction, di

BECAME the biggest party in the country in the general election, as Enda Kenny completed a nine-year fightback from the disaster of the 2002 meltdown.Star performer: Michael Noonan -- the comeback king was a commanding presence during the election campai

The presidential election campaign, which had been running since early summer 2011, had elements of tragedy, comedy and at times downright farce.It began with a debate over nomination procedures: it was too difficult to be selected as a candidate, argued

A bitter process of elimination made Michael D Higgins the only choice for Ireland’s patron saint of politics THE LAST three presidential election campaigns have shown that a vicious war of attrition must be waged to choose the secular equivalent of a pa