It doesn't take much to make Dick Cheney happy. According to a list of his travel perks, printed by the Smoking Gun website, all he needs is a few cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite, a big bed, a pot of decaf. (And global hegemony, of course.) Dr Gloom, who once dismissed conservation as a "personal virtue", likes all the lights blazing before he gets to a hotel suite and all the TVs beaming Fox News.
Next to Geraldine Kennedy in the Irish Times, Elaine Geraghty has the most senior position of any woman in Irish media, for Newstalk 106 may soon be a national station. By Colin Murphy.
Not a single one of the three vital measures promised by Government eight years ago has been implemented. Meanwhile, in that eight years almost as many people have been killed on the roads here as were killed through the 25 years of the Northern conflict. By Donal Kavanagh
Problems are already occuring with private home help in the Dublin area. Scott Millar reports
The 'Northern Fringe development' in north Dublin has plans for 40,000 new residents but remains without basic services. Scott Millar reports
An average of all published opinion polls since 2002 shows none of the coalition options offered to the electorate would win an overall majority. By Colin Murphy
Businesswoman Anne Heraty was already one of Ireland's richest women before selling a chunk of her stake in CPL Resources this year. Fionola Meredith charts the career of the media-shy multimillionaire.
On Morning Ireland on Monday (27 March) Cathal MacCiolla introduced the presenter of the “What it says in the pape...
Flesh and Blood, and Hide and Seek, two new RTÉ series, one fact, one fiction, both worth trying. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger
Colin Murphy meets Enda Walsh, the man behind Disco Pigs and the latest play by Druid, The Walworth Farce