Congratulations to abuse victim Mairia Cahill on receiving the “Thirst for Justice Award”, which was so well deserved. She has pledged to continue to campaign for justice — particularly any kind of abuse involving children.

Listening to politicians insist that the same-sex marriage referendum is only about the the right of two people who love each other to marry, and that it has nothing to do with children, presumes the electorate is ignorant.

On Saturday, February 28, I collapsed in a shop in Douglas.

I agree with the teachers who object to assessing their own pupils. Apart from favouritism, there is the risk of a parent irate about a pupil’s low grade.

As one who doesn’t want to see Sinn Féin in government, the fact that Maria Cahill was presented with the James Larkin award at the Labour Party conference is somewhat reassuring.

The US can embed sophisticated hacking tools within the hard-drives of personal computers built by some of the world’s bigger manufacturers, according to research based in Russia.

In the forthcoming marriage-equality referendum, the proposed change relates to civil marriage only.

Pascal Pape, the French rugby player, kneed James Heaslip in the back, causing damage to three vertebrae, during the Ireland/France match. Heaslip had to miss subsequent matches.

I am motivated to write to your newspaper after seeing the fight nurses and midwives are currently undertaking in their efforts to be properly paid and have manageable working conditions as they take care of the women in their hospitals.

The statement by Mr Ashoka Mody, the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief of mission, on the private debt forced upon the citizens of Ireland enhances the view of many, that, as the government has failed to do so, then the Irish people should take a case in the European Court of Justice against the ECB, the European Commission, and others for coercion and extortion.