CUTTING-edge engineering projects by CIT students will be on show at the 27th annual Cork Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering Exhibition at the Bishopstown campus on Thursday.

I WAS chatting to someone the other day whose pleasure (or pain) it is to spend a lot of time on the ministerial corridor in Leinster House.

A FEW weeks ago, I wrote here that the Taoiseach’s apology to the women who had survived the hardship and abuse of the Magdalene Laundries represented significant social progress, for which he deserved a lot of congratulations.

I HAVE a friend called Ger.

DEAR Eamon,

I SENT a few texts home during the week, complaining about the heat and humidity, and about how I kept having to slip into the pool to cool off.

WHEN you think about it, the really surprising thing is how surprised we all were.

WE ARE all dreading it.

I DON’T understand how Government departments can act this way and get away with it.

THE Taoiseach’s apology to the women who had survived the hardship and abuse of the Magdalene laundries represented significant social progress, for which he deserves congratulations.