Further to my letter on the singing of our national anthem may I make a few suggestions.

I have the perfect solution to child obesity.

Even if we ignore all the public/private sector squabbling, we can’t afford to ignore the very real and looming pension time bomb.

I am a simple man with simple needs but I lose the grip on this thought sometimes as survival gets in the way.

At the launch of his party’s referendum campaign, Enda Kenny stood with a copy of the Constitution in his hand and declared: “It is the constitutional responsibility of Dáil Eireann to hold the Government to account.”

A beautiful photographic exhibition entitled Faces of Cork has been on display in Cork airport.

Watching my son wobble down the path towards the school bus that would pick him up for the pobal scoil brought back memories of me doing the same sort of wobble, but it wasn’t going to school. I was too busy for that.

The 2009 documentary Out of the Marvellous on the life and work of Seamus Heaney was re-broadcast on the day he died, Aug 30.

Michael Clifford’s ‘let’s get rid of the Dáil’ as well as the Seanad catchcry is irresponsible (Sept 14).

Barack Obama has stated that the Syrians have crossed the red line in using chemical weapons.