Previous Day
Not Seeing Wood For The Trees
The public debate about tree-felling in O'Connell Street has been characterised by emotion, hysteria and rank political opportunism. It is also infected by amnesia, as the 1998 Integrated Area Plan to regenerate Dublin's main thoroughfare clearly indicated that the existing trees, none of them more than a century old, would be replaced by new trees in a different formation to achieve a "boulevard" effect mimicking the Champs-Elysées in Paris - as was loudly trumpeted at the time. p
FAI's Abject Failures
The damning criticism of the Football Association of Ireland contained in the independent report into the events at the World Cup and the FAI's day-to-day operation goes far beyond what was expected. Even those with only a remote interest in soccer expected that the FAI would face severe censure over its handling of events in Saipan, but few anticipated that the report would reserve its most scathing criticism for the association's inability to run a modern, professional sporting body. p
Opinion
Shannon set to get very busy indeed
There will not be much reason to worry about the Shannon stopover for a while. It's going to be fairly busy down there with tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of Americans streaming through in the next few months, writes Vincent Browne pThe people are not amused by royal scandals
Queen Elizabeth will be the centre of pomp this morning - as her family is at the centre of yet more scandal. Frank Millar in London examines the latest travails of the royals pIrish fishermen caught in the middle with too much sea, not enough fish
The only option now may be to press at European level for closed areas and complete moratoria on certain stocks, writes Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent p
An Irishman's Diary
"Well," declared the president of the Football Association of Ireland, "that's been another successful week all round, even though we didn't qualify for the 2010 World Cup," writes Kevin Myers p
