Opinion

• Rejection would jeopardise stability and employment Those against ratifying this treaty should explain how day-to-day State expenditure will be funded from 2013, writes JOHN O'HAGAN
• Citizens cannot afford a pact that will make recovery more difficult The Government claims the austerity treaty is sensible and intended to balance the books – but the opposite is the case, writes GERRY ADAMS
• Prophets of doom greatest threat facing North now LAST FRIDAY, in a melodramatically titled leader piece, “Northern Warning”, this newspaper gave its reaction to a peace monitoring report published by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council.
• March 8th, 1972 FROM THE ARCHIVES: The economic cost to the Republic of the Northern Troubles became apparent in 1972 after Bloody Sunday in Derry and the subsequent burning of the British embassy in Dublin, as this contemporary report illustrated.
  

An Irishmans Diary

• An Irishman's Diary NEXT to “icon” and “iconic”, against which this column was forced to issue a fatwa last year, “passion” and “passionate” must be the most overused words of our age.