The Dublin government is sitting on a surplus of €65 billion: why don’t they use it to solve the housing shortage, upgrade the health system, support education as it should be? Is this Fine Gael making sure that the market rules rather than any interfering government.

Both Bob Geldof and Ryan Tubridy have recently talked and written about how close they were to Sinead O’Connor. Is this simply sharing their happy memories, or maybe doing some virtue signalling and at the same time polishing their public image?

Croke Park yesterday had over 80,000 people watching the GAA Football All-Ireland final. Countless others watched on TV or listened to the radio. Is this because GAA players are amateurs, or is professionalism inevitable – and will that destroy the games? It didn’t seem to do much harm to Wimbledon tennis when they allowed professionals to play, and would Manchester City be anything like the great tem they are if they weren’t all professionals being paid huge sums of money? And then, of course, there’s the Middle East…

In the 1970s, we didn’t have the internet, fax machines, phones with cameras. Would you like to go back to those days – or even live today without all that technology?

Pin back your ears:buckets of wisdom coming your way….