The Central Bank is quite right to try to prevent house buyers from being stampeded into buying houses at crazy prices.

Will the loyal #rebootireland party followers become known as The Creightonistas?

The IMF came to town — not to bury us, but to praise us. There were hugs, handshakes and smiles all round, as our leaders duly kowtowed.

There has been a significant rise in the number of heroin users in the last five years with approximately 500 heroin users in Cork now and this is contributing to homelessness, crime and death.

Four years gone and still no democratic revolution and the number of political reforms is a pittance.

I love to buy the Irish Examiner on a Monday, mostly for the local sport, and I read Suzanne Harrington’s column, too.

There have been moves of late to loosen the party whip to allowing politicians vote freely on matters of conscience.

This week, the Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) will meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny to discuss the absence of choice in our schools and the painfully slow progress being made on what was to have been one of the defining projects for this Government — changes to school patronage.

People have varying opinions about the new Junior Certificate course, but, as a teacher, this is my experience: in May, 2014, I attended training on the new Junior Certificate English course.

It was one of those wickedly cold mornings we get in Monaghan, when I turned left at the cathedral to go to Dublin.