The news that a 15-year-old American boy collapsed and was rushed to hospital last week after he played computer games without a break for five days may be seen as an indictment of computer games but in reality the boy, and especially his parents, have the hardest questions to answer.

The Olympic Games, which closed in London last night, were generally considered to have been a great success.

With over 460,000 people unemployed in this country at present, more than half of those for over a year, the Irish Examiner begins a five part series today on the unemployment problem.

At exceptional moments like this it is easy to see how great and positive an influence sport can be, and generally is, in our lives.

Libraries are one of the great empowering institutions. They are one of the great engines of culture and civilisation and deserve to be supported and protected.

Budget day is a little over a dozen weeks away but already the covering fire has been laid down and in some sectors it is already intense.

What a difference four two-minute rounds — and more than two decades of work — make.

Silver — and now for gold! There are moments in a lifetime that etch events in the mind. Yesterday was such a moment when Katie Taylor gave the nation cause to rejoice.

With crime on the increase, it is disturbing to learn that Garda morale is at a new low. Because of Government cutbacks, according to the GRA, a body with 11,200 frontline members of the force, the gardaí are no longer able to protect swathes of rural Ireland.

Yesterday’s European Commission report on waste management which ranked Ireland 15th out of 27 member states was another indication that we have yet to make the connection between our treatment of the environment and our responsibilities to the future.