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That is the explanation according to the Oxford English Dictionary. But what is it that determines whether or not something is urgent these days?

Outspoken airline boss Michael O’Leary is seen as the best home-grown hope of sorting the country’s finances.

It’s not often these days that Taoiseach Brian Cowen gets to deliver good news, so when he was invited to open the new stretch of the N6 motorway from Athlone to Ballinasloe next week, he graciously accepted.

The entire team of RTÉ Nuacht celebrated its relocation from Donnybrook to the TG4 studios in Baile na hAbhann, following a significant investment into revamping the TG4 headquarters. A total of 42 staff are involved in the relocation with three new positions created. The Irish language news programme will now benefit from a more extensive schedule and an increased amount of air-time.

Some 500 farmers hijacked the opening of the Athlone to Ballinasloe section of the M6 yesterday (Thursday) in a protest which was organised by the IFA. It aimed to demonstrate farmers’ anger at the Government for the closing off of the REPS 4 (Rural Environment Protection Scheme) and proposed cuts in funding for the development of rural areas in the Midlands and West.

Who would have thought! Fair enough, the opening of the new section of the M6 between Athlone and Ballinasloe is great news for anyone heading west. But who would have thought the farmers would hijack it?

Who would have thought! Fair enough, the opening of the new section of the M6 between Athlone and Ballinasloe is great news for anyone heading west. But who would have thought the farmers would hijack it?

I was going to ignore it and presumed it would be forgotten about quickly, but no, the tree stump in the Rathkeale churchyard is still in the news.

It looks as though we've all been saddled with a bill of €90 billion by the antics of the banks and the Liam Carrolls and Sean Dunnes of the property development world. I stayed in one of Mr Carroll's apartments down on the quays in Dublin a few years ago. At the time I wondered how anyone could spend more than a couple of nights in these shoeboxes. There wasn't space to swing even a very small cat in the rooms.

Kilkenny is topping the country’s redundancy league table with job losses in the city and county having risen by more than 200 per cent since January.