I was in London last year and I saw a playground where children could bring their small bicycles and skateboards. It contained roundabouts, traffic lights and all the different traffic control measures one could meet on the roads.

Professionals, such as lawyers, doctors, engineers, architects and accountants, are certified to practise through training, examinations, accreditation and registration.

Little wonder that the Coalition is in such disarray when, almost every day, Enda Kenny is up and down the country availing of yet another photo opportunity to announce a few more jobs.

I wish to reply to a letter by John Mallon, of Mayfield (Irish Examiner, October 16).

I had assumed that former Taoiseach, John A Costello, a devout Catholic, had written the Uriah Heep-type letter of cloying humility and obsequiousness to Pope Pius XII.

A national government will never happen or not till it’s too late because it would break the fundamental rule of politics: do not deal with a crisis until the water is sloshing around the kitchen floor.

While the second-level teacher unions are seeking to maintain State certification and external assessment, we are in favour of changes to enhance the Junior Cycle and support the introduction of new forms of assessment, as long as these assessment components are externally marked.

Israel prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu will come under intense pressure to react with force to the deaths in the attack on the Agassi Street synagogue.

There has been widespread condemnation of the water-charges protest march incident involving Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton. 

After the notorious ‘attack’ on our Tanaiste, Joan Burton, last week, maybe we Irish will lose our reputation as the least ‘back-boned’ of all the recent IMF/EU/ECB victims?