Garth doesn’t need to crawl over the Atlantic to get what he wants. He can walk on water.

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" — Hamlet.

We already can see the electorate being softened up for the next election, with promises of an easing of austerity, tax breaks for low and middle earners, etc.

Change has come at last. Anybody reading Pope Francis’s homily at a Mass for clergy sex abuse victims in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae cannot but feel the sorrow in his words and his determination to change the culture within the Church that failed to protect children.

We in the Bethany Survivors campaign and in representing survivors of other Protestant institutions are concerned about the switch of Charlie Flanagan from Children’s Minister to Foreign Affairs.

We have had town government since the Normans came here, 800 years ago. On the cusp of the centenary of 1916, the Fine Gael Minister for the Local Government of the day abolished the ‘bottom’ tier of local government, with the support of the joint-principal opposition party, Fianna Fáil.

With the Cabinet reshuffled, the Government can focus on the radical reform of what it called "an outdated system of administration".

Western politicians’ equivalence of Israel’s horrific assaults on civilian populations with the insignificant efforts of Hamas to defend the people of Gaza is obscene.

While the words on the banner hung in front of Liberty Hall (‘We serve neither King nor Kaiser but Ireland’) still resonate a century on, representing the values of a patriotic anti-imperialist neutrality, they mask an historical reality that was a good deal more complex than is generally allowed (Letters, July 4).

Communities under siege; vandalism, rows, drug dealing; and ram raids. Such incidents are becoming all too common in towns and villages throughout the country.