Offering 25 bonus points for any student achieving a D grade or higher in honours maths was a risky educational experiment.

I refer to the letter from Dr Kevin McCarthy regarding the departing ambassador of Israel to Ireland.

Concerning the recent O’Donovan Rossa funeral commemoration rhetoric; it should be noted that John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party had strong associations with early Fenianism.

To which type of “deeply rewarding” does Brendan Kelly (Irish Examiner, Letters, August 10) refer in his sturdy apologia for current response practices regarding life-distress issues?

Many of the headlines recently refer to the failings of our health service.

Sincere thanks to the Irish Examiner on the piece on the serious decline of rural Ireland as illustrated in the article on the parish of Tournafulla.

The deliberate blinding of a terrier dog in Waterford city last week has to act as a wake-up call for society to face the reality of animal abuse in its midst.

The Port of Cork Company has been granted planning by An Bord Pleanála for a container terminal at Ringaskiddy, despite senior inspectors having advised rejection of permission. Following rejection of their application in 2008, due to inadequate roads and no rail facilities, Port of Cork nevertheless proceeded with a container facility at Ringaskiddy in 2012.

I very much welcome the decision of Amnesty International to support the decriminalisation of prostitution.

The unseemly diplomatic stand off between representatives of President Higgins, and Israeli Ambassador Boaz Modai, about why he did not receive an official invitation to commemorate his departure after five years as Israel’s ambassador to Dublin, just about summarises the contentious nature of his Irish residency.