The 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert was famous for his attention to detail. He was reputed to spend over a week agonizing over a single sentence, weighing up each word’s exact shade of meaning.

It seems that Flaubert has some distinguished heirs among the tabard-wearing intellos who occasionally work for Iarnr�d �ireann. Commuter and intercity rail services to and from Cork were suspended this week when

Yes, it’s powerful evidence of lingusitic viglianance (and a finnicky union mindset) to detect a world of difference between renewal and maintenance.