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The truth hurts: Taoiseach was right

IT CAME as a surprise to me that Enda Kenny's comments about greed and excessive borrowing were met with such anger in recent days but as they say 'the truth hurts'.

Greed is god at present

Dear Sir,

Borrowers caught up in wealth illusion

WHEN TAOISEACH Enda Kenny last week attributed the country's economic collapse to a madness for borrowing that gripped the population in the heady days of the Celtic Tiger, he sparked a chorus of howling indignation, some of it from the most unlikely quarters.

Drogheda high on honeymoon search list

ALL THE hard work on RTE'S Local Heroes programmes seems to have paid off as the number of newly-weds checking out Drogheda in December as a honeymoon destination online has jumped by an incredible 286% from the same period last year.

Emotional portrait of a family in crisis

THE DESCENDANTS (15) GOOD THINGS come to those who wait and it's been an agonising seven years since writer-director Alexander Payne ventured to the sun-dappled vineyards of the quirky Oscar-winning comedy Sideways. /P>

Many tax issues to consider in transfer of a family farm

Q . I am 30 years old and my family's farm has recently been transferred to me from my father. Will I now be required to file an Income Tax Return and if so is there anyway I can reduce my potential income tax liability?

I've finally joined Twitter, yet early signs are not great

By Justine O'Mahony

IFINALLY succumbed to the draw of social networking and joined Twitter recently. I'm a late developer when it comes to modern technology and only joined facebook last year, having moaned about others becoming addicted to it for months.

Famine commemoration of Black 47

By BRENDAN MATTHEWS

THIS COMING summer the town of Drogheda will host the National Famine Commemoration which is a wonderful achievement and is all the more poignant considering that the year 2012 will also mark the 165th anniversary of 'Black 4', referring to the year 1847 which was one of the harshest years of the Great Famine of the mid-19th century.

'The children came back to thank us'

THIRTY years might have passed but Peter Lynch says he will 'never forget' the night a bus full of stranded passengers arrived on his doorstep during the worst snow blizzards in living memory.

Hedgehogs a challenge for vets

By Pete Wedderburn

IOPENED the box and peered inside. At first I could just see straw, but then I heard a rustling noise and the shiny black tip of a pointed snout emerged. I cleared some of the straw away to get a better look, and the snout rapidly receded.