Is it true that when the FIFA executives were arrested in Switzerland and the United States, last week, they threw themselves onto the ground and rolled around pretending to be injured?

Due to the latest court decision involving a highly visible Irish businessman, I am not able to write a letter to the editor about that person.

The images of migrants being rescued by the LE Eithne off the Libyan coast (‘Irish navy ship rescues 201 migrants in Med’, Irish Examiner. May 29) stand in marked contrast to those of body bags and coffins which dominated the international media just a few short weeks ago.

To have one vote is a privilege, to knowingly have more than one is against the law.

It was reported thatattempts are being made to split the Right2Water campaign, if this is true, and many say it is not, it would be disturbing as Right2Water is the only social movement capable of effecting real change in Ireland.

Voltaire said “to discover who rules over you, you must first find out who you are not permitted to criticise”.

That an Irish woman is to be the first female Vice-Chancellor of Oxford brings back memories of the battle women had to be allowed to even enter Oxford or Cambridge.

With the beginning of the Leaving Certificate exams, so also begins the media coverage of the exam. I actually think that most of this coverage is ‘hype’ and very unhelpful ‘hype’ at that.

Hot on the heels of the passing of the so-called ‘marriage equality’ amendment, the Tanáiste, Joan Burton, has called for the repeal of the Eight Amendment to our Constitution, which recognises the equal right to life of a mother and her unborn baby.

I hear a lot about hospitals being overcrowded. After my experience at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, I believe that, except for the A&E, most of it is their own fault.