The annual bonfire of our countryside is well under way. This illegal practice is massively degrading upland habitats and is driving species to extinction.

The Irish public can only hope that criminals did not view your front-page story of last Thursday ( ‘Forensic science agency in crisis mode’) as an invitation to commit more crime.

Diageo came up with a brilliant idea: use the 250th anniversary of the founding of Guinness to market their products. It was so successful that ‘Arthur’s Day’ became an annual event perhaps as significant in our calendars as St Patrick’s Day.

Cycling is in fashion. Close to 200,000 bikes have been bought under the bike-to-work scheme, but cyclists would be advised to think about insurance cover.

Double standards are practiced by all world powers. 

Would a conscience clause allow a landlord to refuse to rent to a gay person - or to a Muslim - or an unbaptised individual?

The life of prostitution and sex-trafficking set out by Nina Burleigh (‘Pretty Woman’ hides the ugly reality of prostitution, Irish Examiner, Opinion, March 25) is one with which frontline agencies across Ireland can identify.

A few days ago an event was announced for Holy Thursday’. 

King Richard III of England was reburied in Leicester Cathedral this week. Richard III remains the key suspect in the Murder of The Young Princes in the Tower in 1483.

Evert Bopp’s letter (Irish Examiner, March 24) is mischievous in so far as it seeks to convey the impression that a ‘Yes’ vote in the Marriage Equality Referendum will diminish the status in the Constitution of marriage between a man and a woman.