As he emerges from the washroom tonight, flossed and brushed and boxered, it acknowledges his presence with a cordial flicker.

In situations of low ministerial turnover and increased professionalisation of politics, with most TDs regarding politics as a career, Taoisigh could find that impatience on the backbenches leads to calls for leadership turnover to effect promotions.

There are a number of theoretical concerns which might seem to militate against the successful creation of a dictionary of Indian English.

an idiomatic phrase that warns us against pollyannaism is counting one's chickens before they hatch