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As Larry Summers rather pithily summed up in an article last autumn on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Bank robbers should not expect banks to honour their safe deposit boxes.” ?

Jacques Delors had real difficulties containing his anger as he faced a small group of Irish reporters in the foyer of the EU Commission headquarters. It was mid-October 1993 and he had just finished a meeting with Irish foreign affairs minister, Dick Spring, who had flown to Brussels in a hurry to meet the commission president over a rapidly unravelling deal on Ireland’s regional and social grant allocation.

Today, former taoiseach and mayor of Dublin, Bertie Ahern, joins The Indo Daily podcast for an election special.

A Floral City man is in jail facing 12 counts of possessing child pornography.

A Florida City man is facing multiple child porn charges after being arrested Thursday.

Irish people’s love of slaying small furry and feathered creatures has traditionally grown in pace just after the celebration of the birth of the Saviour.

On my early grape-picking forays to France back in another lifetime, my Irish friends and I used to play a bar-room game we called “spot the Irish product here”. It was often over before it started because there were few if any Irish-origin products visible in French bars in the mid-1970s.

The belligerent persona that is Viktor Orban helps us realise one thing very clearly: joining the European Union is a slow and uncertain business.

I t was yet another of Leo Varadkar’s public encounters with the “truth serum”. He and EU kingpin Donald Tusk had just finished a press conference during which the Polish politician had publicly mused about: “What that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely.”

For many millions across the globe, the Koran is a holy book always worthy of respect, but for others it is a text used as justification for the deaths of women, Jews and homosexuals among others.