I remember at 15 I visited my doctor, complaining of continual tiredness and unable to do anything.

I was delighted to read the letter by Dr Elizabeth Cullen, Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association in the Irish Medical News on January 27, 2014, outlining "The precautionary principle", with regard to the pylons.

Ministers are striving to outdo one another with threats of even more taxes in the next budget. This Government have lost the run of themselves.

There was something quite buffoonish about Bobby Storey’s boast on a platform in West Belfast with Martin McGuinness that "they haven’t gone away, you know".

I’m delighted that Tara the cat’s heroism, in saving a toddler in California from an attacking dog, was caught on camera and viewed by millions worldwide. What a long-overdue PR boost for cats.

I was heartened recently to see Stormont’s First Minister Peter Robinson declare everyone equal under the law, following the arrest by PSNI of Gerry Adams.

The local and European elections on May 23 will give everyone affected by the Grid Link plan — which will put pylons and wind farms across the South and East — a chance to have their say.

As a previous participant in and current avid follower of Gaelic games, I am deeply saddened to view the front page of your Monday sports supplement (May 19) which shows the referee being escorted from the field of play by four burly officials.

Does Taoiseach Enda Kenny have a political masterplan involving sports personalities?

Here’s a (not so) wacky idea. Gays, forget about gay marriage and settle with ‘narriage’.