Munster Express Online

It is difficult to understand how the government cannot see the merit in the suggestion by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry that purchasers of second-hand cars should be permitted to re-register them in the county of their choice.

Many people were surprised to learn last week that a number of councils around the country are engaging the costly services of independent mediators who deal with conflict issues between tenants in their housing estates.

Prior to last week, if I had been asked to list the top five Irish cities in terms of population, I would have said Dublin, Cork and Limerick with Galway and Waterford battling it out for fifth place. Technically, I would have been wrong.

A decision by a District Judge in a Small Claims Court in County Laois last week may well have consequences for motorists all over the country. The case against the local authority was taken by a woman whose car struck a pothole resulting in two burst tyres that cost her €184 to replace. The main issue [...]

Friends of mine recently returned from a visit to the Canadian city of Toronto where their trip coincided with the G20 Summit of world leaders.

If the opinion polls are to be believed, Fianna Fail and the Greens will be bounced into oblivion at the next general election by all those people waiting in the proverbial long grass.

The ‘De Finibus Project’ is an ongoing study in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork.