IN a world full of uncertainties, few people doubt that Michael D.

DAD'S Army is one of my favourite comedy programmes.

The Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney was fully entitled in his weekend RTE interview to highlight the dangers involved in allowing the complex negotiations between the EU and the UK to be linked to a `green versus orange' argument in Ireland.

May I thank Antán Ó Dála an Rí for his excellent letter – ‘Adopting the usual Zionist position’ (September 14) – in which he implicitly confirms what I had written by being forced to resort to the well-known debating trick, so beloved of barristers, that “when you have no answer to your opponent’s arguments, disparage your opponent”.

The most surprising thing about the evidence given to the RHI inquiry is that anyone finds it surprising.

AS Brexit brinkmanship enters what is hopefully its final stage, finding ways to describe a sea border that will not cause a unionist freak-out has become the most important semantic puzzle in the EU's 24 official languages.

TOUGH talking between politicians usually goes on behind closed doors.

I WATCHED Primark burn.

I was a panellist at last Saturday's Sinn Féin-organised United Ireland conference in Letterkenny, addressing the theme of whether a 'new' Ireland was possible.

Ian Paisley may have narrowly escaped having to fight a by-election but that does not diminish the gravity of his misconduct, which attracted the longest suspension imposed by the House of Commons in modern times.

The decision to appoint Drew Harris as the new Garda Commissioner is typical of the lack of sensitivity that the Free State government has to Irish citizens living in the six counties. 

A consensus has emerged among centre parties and political observers that the key to restoring Stormont is reform or abolition of the petition of concern.

A week ago, in an unprecedented move, Emmanuel Macron officially acknowledged that France had carried out systematic torture during Algeria’s independence war.

Storm Ali proved particularly devastating yesterday, leaving a trail of destruction across Ireland and, most tragically, causing the deaths of two people, in Co Galway and Co Armagh.

It is appalling that heartless thieves would be prepared to steal all four wheels from a nurse's car which was parked in the grounds of Craigavon area hospital in Co Armagh.

M Hayes’s letter (September 11) on the Pope’s recent visit asks pertinent questions, but also confuses some issues.

You might not think so but the RHI inquiry is a sideshow.

Christ Church cathedral in Dublin isn’t the sort of place you’d normally hear a public profanity; especially not an African Union official proclaiming that we’re now “in deep sh*t” (environmentally speaking).

THE Good Friday Agreement might have been 20 years ago, but the legacy of the Troubles is never far away.

Widespread concern has been voiced recently over the subliminal, covert and downright blatant messages we feed to our young people through the media and advertising about body image.