The naysayers use Ireland's economic boom to argue that we cannot meet our Kyoto targets.  In fact, the argument can be turned on its head.

Two more families have been forced out of Moyross while the campaign of anti-social behaviour continues and the politicians take a long summer holiday.

There is a danger that Bloomsday celebrations will begin to ring very hollow if our poor literacy statistics are not challanged, Cllr Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, has said.

I, as a Malaysian, would like to file a complaint on behalf of anti-logging and plantation villagers from the Indigenous communities, against EU officials from the EU Commission, in their complicity with the logging and plantation corporations in Malaysia.

Fianna Fail's election promises for the state pension overlook the real pensions issues. By Jim Stewart

On radio with Pat Kenny this morning (Thursday, 17 May) Pat Rabbitte engaged in his familiar evasions when asked if he would enter government with Fianna Fail, in the event of the election outcome not allowing for a Fine Gael-led government. But eventually in response to the question:

Could you give me some idea of the ground you would like to cover in the interview before we start?

Well, just a little on the Brussels negotiations, the forthcoming Budget and the cheap livestock loans ...

 What cheap livestock loans?

The £100 million fund for livestock investment announced by Brian Lenihan in November before the election.

Well, I'm not too clear ...

Is the cheap livestock scheme going ahead, Minister?

Em ...

Magistrate John Fyffe said dispassionately: "If there is any disruption by any member of the public, or any relative — any person guilty of disruption or harassment will be excluded from the court." He sat back and the door in the wall to his right, a few steps up, opened. Three men in civilian clothes came out and down, quickly, smoothly, and were in place below the magistrate, still on his right, within seconds. The third man was Raymond Gilmour.

The omens for the 1983 tour of New Zealand by the British Isles and Ireland were not exactly propitious. The tours committee of the Four Home Unions had made yet another bodge of the match programme, despite the fact that it is such a simple exercise that it would not take anyone who knows anything about New Zealand and New Zealand Rugby more than an hour to get it all right, including travel and choice of hotels.

Mary Raftery reports on the internal feuds over the leadership and direction of An Taisce.