‘It did not have to end like this,” wrote columnist Con Coughlin in The Daily Telegraph recently. “Our valiant mission to defeat the Taliban and stabilise Afghanistan has been reduced to an undignified scramble for the exit by Nato leaders
We all know the story by now: on Monday 21 November, Cllr Darren Scully of Fine Gael, at the time Mayor of Naas in Co Kildare, spoke in a radio interview about his refusal to take representations from black Africans.
Many ask if it’s really possible that Osama bin Laden could have lived in Pakistan for six years without being identified, especially living so close to the Pakistan Military Academy. The simple answer is ‘no’. It defies all common