I believe that she has been disgracefully treated for being forgiving and helpful to her husband Tim, who undoubtedly has a despicable flaw, when we think of the abuse of the children involved, but there, but for the grace of God, go I.

There's no better walk. Make it, some late summer evening, a little whip of wind across the East River. You arrive from the Brooklyn side. In the distance is Manhattan, where the sun goes down like a giant red aspirin behind the jagged skyline.

Ian Paisley's decision to share power with Sinn Féin is alienating his flock. And as his position for moderator comes up for re-election, the Reverend is in for a rough ride.

Ireland's economic success is partly due to our low corporate tax rate, which attracted multinationals, making Ireland the most profitable global location for US firms. But wages and costs have increased in Ireland and corporations are looking elsewhere.

Favourite book: I tend to like the books I've just read – something to do with a short attention span. I've just read Independence Day by Richard Ford, the second of his trilogy about Frank Bascombe after The Sportswriter and both are brilliant. But I've also just reread The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – it's a hilarious almost-perfect depiction of a family in crisis ending around the holiday season. I've given it to at one stage or another to all of my family member  and we fight about who's who at Christmas.

The taming of the Greens, replacing principle with maturity, has been supported by the media. By Chekov Feeney.

The Greens have traditionally been placed somewhere on a spectrum between a dangerous subversive threat and a harmless joke by the media.

Can it be true that our customs and excise have a single boat to patrol our 1500 km of coastline? Imagine the crew leader planning their day.

I've just been revisiting the census 2006 figures and I've come up with an interesting statistic.

The James Joyce Centre at 35 North Great George's Street is hosting a number of ticketed and non-ticketed events. The Joycean activities taking place on the day will include.

The defining archaeological feature associated with the major prehistoric royal centres of Navan Fort, Co Armagh, Knockaulin, Co Kildare, Rathcroghan, Co Roscommon and the pre-eminent royal site of Tara, Co Meath, is the concentration of large-scale, high-status and unusual monument types, many of which are of a funerary, ritual or ceremonial nature. It has long been recognised that each monument within the Tara landscape is an integral part of Tara.