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Things are heating up - not necessarily in terms of the upcoming festive season - or indeed in regard to outside temperatures, but just in a general sense. After the historic events of the week - the lacklustre Taoiseach State-of-the-nation address on Sunday followed by the half-and-half ‘slash and burn’ budget over Monday and Tuesday, a new force is building. It is not a positive force. The momentous proceedings of the past week put paid to any chance of positive people-power being harnessed. If anything, the spirit is sapped.

The attacks on Utoya Island directed against young people attending a Norwegian Labour Party summer camp were a “horrific event” and “an attack on democracy itself”.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny used the words dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, and narcissism in describing the culture dominating the Vatican with regard to the cover-ups of clerical sex abuse in Ireland, and rightly so.

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ICELAND’S ECONOMY imploded in 2008 devastating the nation, but through courage, unorthodox ingenuity, and zero tolerance for politicians’ excuses, the nation is getting back on its feet.

The Government has appointed Carlow-Kilkenny TD Ann Phelan, to the prestigious British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly.

“A week is a long time in politics,” former British prime minister Harold Wilson famously said. Four years even longer and in Mayo the change was a lot more dramatic than most would have expected from the last time they stood in the count centre in the Royal Theatre for a general election count. The blue surge over the country turned into a tidal wave in Mayo, with four of the five seats going to Fine Gael. The four Fine Gael candidates took 58.96 per cent of the first preference vote in the county, which translates into 48,170 first preference votes. That is an increase of 5.13 per cent from 2007 or 9,924 votes.

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes,” these were the wise words of Benjamin Disraeli, a former British prime minister and the first Earl of Beaconsfield, words that Atlantic College founder John Daly has taken to heart and used as inspiration to build what began as a small language school into an internationally recognised success story.

Lexus tells us that pre-launch testing of the new CT 200h reveals that it is a leading low-emissions vehicle in the European market. It has beaten earlier internal projections.

Sadly we have become a figure of fun internationally. Irish jokes are once again popular because the Irish people have been turned into a joke by those we entrusted to represent us with dignity, honour and competence.