On Monday evening last, The Bridge Bar, an institution in Ballyhea for a century, closed its doors.

Your columnist Michael Clifford is right when he says that “journalists are as prone to displaying integrity as your average guard, teacher, solicitor, butcher or baker” (September 5).

In response to Mary Murphy, of the European Studies specialist group, the threat of UKip is a democratic reaction to a federal Europe.

John Fogarty says that Kilkenny-Tipperary is not a “keen rivalry”, and uses Kilkenny’s big win in the 2012 All-Ireland semi-final to distort the margins between them. 

There has been much debate in the media in recent weeks about the continuing decline in air traffic at Cork Airport. Much of it argues that full independence from the Dublin Airport Authority is needed to get passenger numbers back to the level of the last decade.

Paul Doran asks why prayers are still said in state schools, and he makes a claim for a secular society. The reason is that Ireland is a sovereign republic.

Irish medicine has a long-held tradition of treating both an expectant mother and her unborn, developing child.

On Monday night’s Nine O’Clock News, on RTÉ 1, weather presenter Gerry Murphy announced that "In Ireland, autumn is September, October and November". As bald and as bold as that.

Successive Irish governments have failed to expedite the development of our oil and gas potential.

In the acclaimed movie, Gravity, the character played by the wonderful Sandra Bullock is required to save herself.