No pylons. The destruction these monsters will cause is incredible.

Reports say that about 240,000 children under six years old will get free doctors’ care by the end of 2014.

The ongoing controversy concerning charities brings to mind another form of charity — that dispensed by local and national government to the party faithful.

I am very concerned with aspects of the PAC inquiry relating to the CRC. The inquiry is, supposedly, independent.

The Government intends to open a ‘scaled-down’ diplomatic mission to the Holy See, which it closed ostensibly to ‘save money’.

I am more than slightly amused at the moral high ground taken by Mary Lou McDonald, the deputy leader of Sinn Féin, re the payments to the former head of the CRC.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan was not the only commisioner to appear before an Oireachtas Committee last Thursday.

Recently, Fáilte Ireland announced that €8m will be invested in establishing and promoting the Wild Atlantic Way. This should bring a great boost to tourism up and down the west coast of Ireland.

After watching the films Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom and 12 Years a Slave, I’m glad that I’m an Irish Catholic. Our community has never had a secular empire.

There is no evidence of an independent review and approval process at the Central Remedial Clinic in the determination of the outrageous scale of remuneration, termination and pension arrangements with its former chief executive, or the source of cash to pay these, contrary to basic standards of acceptable institutional governance.