The summer weather has appeared. The town of Killarney looks beloved, with its multi-coloured window boxes and hanging baskets, proudly displayed against a background of freshly painted private houses, shops, restaurants, hotels, pubs and offices.

There have been calls for cyclists to carry insurance, just like motorists, and also for them to get penalty points for careless or dangerous cycling. This is long overdue, but it’s not enough.

Trickles of information are beginning to paint the picture of the causes of our enforced austerity which will be with us for generations to come. Just so we don’t forget: €200 billion in unsustainable debt with over €10 billion in interest payments alone year after year).

On Sunday, I settled down to watch the Galway-Mayo football game on The Sunday Game.

I’m a retired US detective, with 27 years’ service.

Another outbreak of BSE would be a dagger in the heart of, not just farmers, but the entire community.

It’s remarkable how selective apologists for the myth of a Palestinian state are about what offends them.

When Brendan O’Brien again calls for people to support the BDS campaign against Israel, by reinforcing British film director, Ken Loach’s “call on London cinemas not to host the London Israeli Film and Television Festival”, because “it is at least partly promoted and financed by the Israeli government”, he justifies it as an equitable response to the suppression of a proposed Palestinian cultural festival in East Jerusalem in 2009 (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 13).

I noticed that the trees at the corner of Merrion Square, which blocked the view of the sculpture of Oscar Wilde, have just been cleared.

America and its allies are strengthening sanctions against Vladimir Putin.