As the budget anger grows ever louder, we join our defiant monarch, Madame Deficit and her boy heir, the Dauphin of Debt, in their Palace of Many Sighs...
"If the absurd light rail network is not stopped, how will we answer the next generation when they ask: “Why did you permit the government to shoulder us with great debt for a slow, outdated transport system?” writes BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
"As a comic novel with serious intent, Chalk and Cheese is a rare gem – an intricate fabrication that is profoundly human. It is, without question, the best novel I have read this year,: writes book reviewer MICHAEL BRIODY.
Police are looking for a man accused of two acts of indecency on a young woman at a sports bar on Northbourne Avenue on Saturday night between 10pm and 10.30pm.