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    • Making the roads safer

      Enforcement is the key element in a culture of compliance. The Government should have learned that lesson from its incompetent handling of penalty points and drink-driving measures. Yet the Taoiseach launched a revised Road Safety Strategy on Thursday in which the Garda Síochána has been given the job of prosecuting an estimated 420,000 provisional licence-holders if they drive unaccompanied from next Tuesday. p

    • A man for all seasons

      Searching for words to do justice to Brendan McWilliams, it is perhaps appropriate that inspiration comes from those outside his family who loved him most: his readers. This week, many expressed their feelings about Brendan's daily Weather Eye column and the void his death creates for them. The common thread through most of the emails, and some letters published on this page, was that Brendan and Weather Eye were an essential part of the day. p
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    • Government proves it is removed from the real world

      Inside politics: A series of Government decisions over the past few days has demonstrated how remote our leaders have become from the lives of the majority of citizens. There has been a stark illustration of a disconnect between the rulers and the ruled that may be a consequence of the drift of Irish democracy into a virtual one-party State. p

    • High Court Mahon judgment has 'something for everyone' Ruling raises question of whether the journalists' answers are necessary

      In the confrontation between the Mahon tribunal and The Irish Times, the arguments of both sides share striking similarities, writes NUIG media lawyer Marie McGonagle p

    • Raw tone of Kaczynski era consigned to history

      World View: Jaroslaw Kaczynski's departure as prime minister of Poland is a reminder to politicians everywhere: it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, writes Derek Scally p

    • Loss of any victim, even a criminal, a shame

      Most Irish people would have agreed with the sentiments expressed by the Irish Ambassador to Switzerland, James Sharkey, regarding Manuela Riedo, writes Breda O'Brien p

    • Opposition failed to highlight flawed budgets

       The exceptional degree of uncertainty attaching to our economic prospects in the short and medium term was highlighted by the Standard and Poors review of the Irish economy reported by Una McCaffrey on a business page of this paper last Monday, writes Garret FitzGerald p

    • Constituency Commission alters political terrain for TDs

      In the 1960s the then Fianna Fáil minister for the environment used to conduct detailed consultations with the party's Mount Street, Dublin, headquarters chief tallymen before reworking the electoral map. In the mid-1970s the national coalition government unsuccessfully attempted the famous "Tullymander" - named after the then Labour Party minister, writes Noel Whelan p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      Sunday, April 24th, 1932 was a day of tension in the sleepy Derbyshire village of Hayfield. The Duke of Devonshire had recently closed access to nearby Kinder Scout, the highest mountain of the Peak District. As a result, 15 square miles of moorland had become inaccessible to most recreational users, writes John G O'Dwyer p
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