I compliment Tim Higgins and Nick Summers on their excellent article on General Motors and its failure to address an ignition switch problem, first known in 2005, which is linked now to the deaths of 13 people.

Credit is due to all those people who took part in the Ring of Kerry cycle charity event last weekend with €1.2m-plus raised for the various charity organisations.

If the cringeworthy uniform to be worn by Scots competitors at the Commonwealth Games is an example of Scottish decision making, it will do much to swell the "No" vote in the Independence referendum.

Declan Waugh, as usual, does not fail to deliver his usual overdose of bad science, tempered with a touch of apoplexy in his recent letter to the Irish Examiner (Wednesday, July 2) where he treats us to yet another cocktail of inaccuracy about water fluoridation. To his cult following in the outer reaches of the alternative health sector where homeopathy, and not medicine, holds sway he may be a hero. To those of us, who have taken the time and trouble to check his outrageous claims on this subject, he is, to put it mildly, quite misleading.

Weekend in and weekend out and often nights in between marauding gangs of carousing revellers, more often than not from Dublin blight places such Kilkenny and Carrick-on-Shannon.

Our Enda; brilliant at opening things in the far flung fields of foreign lands like the NYSE and Penneys, to name but two.

Hello James Reilly (while you’re there) and Frances Fitzgerald too.

AIB, the people’s bank, regulated on behalf of the Minister of Finance is once again biting the hand that feeds it.

Seemingly the Government, due to an EU regulation, is obliged to include the ‘black market’ in the economic figures for the country. Your issue of Friday last has the CSO calculating a figure of €1.258bn for activities relating to sex and drug transactions. However, the CSO refuses to explain how they came by this figure.

I was thrilled to read Damien Enright’s article of Monday, June 30, as Ardmore Head is one of my favourite places.