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Fair wind on global warming
It is very rare indeed in this fractious world for a large number of countries to agree on anything. Yet in Bali 187 members of the United Nations - large and small, rich and poor - adopted a mandate for a new, more intensive round of negotiations, with a two-year deadline, to reach agreement on deep cuts in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for causing global warning. p
A boost for Shannon
There will have been some gloomy faces at Shannon Airport last week when Aer Lingus got its Belfast services off the ground with return flights to Amsterdam and Barcelona. In the coming months Aer Lingus will open up eight routes out of Belfast International Airport but it is the flights to Heathrow, commencing next month, which Shannon employees will resent most. p
Opinion
Are men victims of domestic violence to the same extent as women?
HEAD2HEAD: Mary Cleary, chairwoman of advocacy group Amen and Margaret Martin, director of Women's Aid, debate the issue pCrying over our canapes
The lady sitting at the next table wore a glittering gold dress. The restaurant was full of Christmas lunchers. She was, like all the patrons, laughing at the top of her lungs, writes Quentin Fottrell p
An Irishman's Diary
American eyes are on Iowa this month, as Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls do battle in the first electoral event of the 2008 US primary season, writes Anthony Glavin. p
