The latest Times Higher Education league table finds that most Irish universities have dropped down the league table. One of the causes for this downgrading is perhaps being overlooked.

If only people would do rather than just say. I refer to Fergus Finley’s letter (Irish Examiner, September 30 ) in which he reminds us that “One in ten children in Ireland” are living in low income households and “without access to basic necessities”.

On a piece about the John McNulty controversary, Labour’s Kathleen Lynch told her interviewer on radio that it must have been a slow-news week.

In an article by Caroline O’Doherty, “Difficulty in determining cause of death delays recording of suicides” (Irish Examiner, September 20), it is clarified that many suicides are not being officially recorded for more than two years because of difficulties determining how the person died.

Kerry recently won their 37th All Ireland Football Title against Donegal and deservingly so.

“Deep frustration and scepticism” (Irish Examiner Editorial, Sept 30) is the hubris-hybrid that has haunted the Stormont ‘enterprise’ since its inception. The innate sectarian ‘pyrite’ which riddles so much of the societal machination in the six northern counties is a greedy malignancy of ‘me-féinism’.

World Teachers’ Day has just passed and to mark the occasion we, the leaders of all the teachers’ and lecturers’ unions in Ireland and Great Britain would like to pose three questions:

So Noonan saved Kenny’s bacon again but in the process, no doubt unintentionally, proved the charge of cronyism against Fine Gael.

On Monday evening I watched on BBC Newsnight an interview between its new presenter and the British Prime Minister.

Ted O’Keeffe (Letters, 3rd October) says that the war in Gaza, in July and August this year, was a bigger world problem than ISIS or ebola.