My good wishes and prayers to the 60,000 students sitting their examinations at this time.

I wish to bring some historical perspective to the hype of the D Day invasion:

"How we react to how society endorsed, at least tacitly, this latest episode in the Irish Holocaust is by far the bigger and more pressing question."

I heard a bit on the news recently about the Scottish referendum on independence; like a lot of people, you think, that’s over there, it’s of no concern to us.

The all encompassing crackdown on attempts to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre says something about the nature of the regime that still holds China in its grip.

I’ve got to thinking lately that this little country of ours should scrap the title ‘Isle of Saints and Scholars’, and instead be known as the ‘Island of Immaculate Conceptions’.

A new inquiry is going to be set up to investigate yet another national scandal — that of the dumping of nearly 800 remains of babies in a cesspit in holy Catholic Ireland.

Re the Tuam babies, while it’s appropriate to focus on the role of the Government and the institutions concerned, perhaps we can look closer to home, and specifically to the grandparents who, for reasons of little more than quasi-Victorian social propriety, bullied their children into handing over their grandchildren to uncaring strangers with the implicit instructions: "do as you wish with them".

Reading Alison O’Connor’s column (Opinion, June 6) prompts me to write in praise of, and agreement with, her excellent article on the Minister of Health, Dr James Reilly and for her fair and impartial assessment of him and his ministry.

The GAA may have taken to Sky TV, but the bizarre and dreadful confrontation that took place at the Armagh /Cavan football match last Sunday was embarrassing to watch to put it mildly.