Our world is often consumed by chaos and confusion, so it is comforting that some things remain constant (‘DUP rules out prospect of power-sharing in Northern Ireland before Christmas’, Irish Independent, December 18).
THE beauty of politics is that it is entirely possible to take the same suite of evidence used by someone else to make a completely different argument and draw a new set of conclusions.
Sir It was Christmas 2006, and yours truly was at the peak of his powers property editor of the Sunday Independent, columnist, dean of a law school, raconteur, bon vivant and all-round dilettante.