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Breaking up Aer Rianta
The chairman of Aer Rianta, Mr Noel Hanlon, will be disappointed that the final results for the group, as it braces itself for the Government's break-up plan, reveal a sharp fall in profits. p
Drinks industry code
The drinks industry has received a great deal of bad publicity in recent years because of an increase in late night violence linked to the abuse of alcohol by young people. The breakdown in law and order was so worrying that the Oireachtas passed legislation last year aimed at controlling under-aged drinking and penalising publicans who sold drink to inebriated customers. p
Opinion
What next - product placement in the classroom?
The Draft Children's Advertising Code seeks to protect children from the excesses of advertising on TV. However, protection of the more commercial-free areas throughout the landscape of childhood needs to be stressed, writes Olivia Freeman . pMcDowell creating divided society
Do we really want two classes of children growing up side by side? Yet that would be the effect of the referendum, writes William Binchy . pAmerica pays a high price for Rumsfeld's litany of mistakes
It is time the abysmal US Defence Secretary resigned or was fired, writes Anthony Lewis . pSorry saga of Smith v Defence
It is said that the great 19th century patriot Daniel O'Connell was such a philanderer that if you threw a stone over any wall in Ireland you'd hit one of his offspring, writes Mary Raftery . p
An Irishman's Diary
Who, reading the news item about a former soldier who was sentenced to multiple sentences of life imprisonment for the serial rape of six little girls - two of his daughters and four nieces - could forbear to throw their newspaper in despair at the organisational delinquencies this State is capable of, asks Kevin Myers . p
