It’s abhorrent, incredulous, it beggars belief that our own Kathleen Lynch was booed and heckled at Neptune Stadium recently.

Many objections are being aired about the negative impact of the proliferating electricity pylons, considered necessary to expand our electricity grid, to accommodate the growing number of wind turbines. Further grid extensions to accommodate wind energy are also envisaged.

In May, I succeeded Tom Arnold as chief executive officer of Concern Worldwide.

A recent Sunday saw RTÉ Six One News announce the Single Farm Payment for 2013.

Reading that the Coalition will reduce income tax as a first priority following the exit from the bailout underlines how remarkable it is that there has not been a revolution here — yet.

For a year now I’ve been passing, on my daily bus journey into Cork City, the location of two very unique milestones near Wilton Roundabout.

The recent cuts to Single Farm Payments (SFP) have come as a big blow to thousands of farmers, and especially here in West Cork where you have many farmers already marginalised as a consequence of the disadvantaged land that makes up many of the holdings.

How ironic that less than two weeks after the Spanish government announced plans to crack down on protests through the imposition of massive fines, we now have pro-EU protests in Ukraine.

I am writing regarding the crisis that is developing in Cork University Hospital.

We are all saddened by Nelson Mandela’s death but it was interesting to see the British media try to rewrite history to make it appear their government was anti-apartheid and pro-Mandela.