The insolvency service faces a huge job, with new rules, new practitioners and an uncertain response from the banks, which will have a key say as the main creditor in most cases.
It is easy to argue that more needs to be done to help Ireland, if we are to exit the bailout programme successfully and, just as important, stay out of it.
Whatever your views on same-sex marriage, it is to be hoped that the Constitutional Convention today recommends a change in Bunreacht na hEireann.
All things considered, it is probably best for the country if the trade union movement endorses the Croke Park II deal in the ballots currently taking place among public sector workers.
The National Consumer Agency recently published a comprehensive survey on the cost of prescription medicines.
There is no easy way to sort out a mess in your banking system. That is the message from what has happened in Cyprus.
The result of the Meath East by-election could hardly be more different for the two government parties.
It is simply inexplicable - and inexcusable - that the situation in Cyprus has been allowed to get into such a mess.
The government, and most of the country, seems to have completely forgotten the virtues of low personal and business taxation and its important role in stimulating the economy.
There appears finally to be a plan coming together to deal with the mortgage crisis.
Ruairi Quinn is very keen on anti-bullying initiatives, so he should stop picking on fee-paying schools. It's beginning to look a bit like, well, bullying.
When the present government acts against its own political interests and takes difficult but necessary action on the public finances, it deserves credit.
With Irish bond interest rates falling and the prospects of exiting the bailout improving, the government may lose its impetus in correcting the public finances.
Plans to drill for oil in Dublin Bay have been abandoned temporarily by exploration company Providence Resources.
Credit where it is due. The deal done between the government, the ECB and the Central Bank of Ireland was an important step forward.
