I read Charlie Mulqueen’s article on Mahony’s Point Killarney with interest, especially when he talked about the original 18 holes before they were broken up into the two courses we know today.

Ignoring elephants in the room and engaging in selective amnesia has become a national disease.

Last week, Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte said that the Government intends to draw up a national policy framework, which will guide planning authorities on suitable locations for wind farms that export the energy they produce.

According to A Leavy (Letters, Aug 5) the Government is borrowing €1bn every month to keep the public services going.

It is grotesquely hilarious to witness Allied Irish Bank chief executive David Duffy castigate so-called strategic defaulters for their alleged refusal to fulfill mortgage contracts (Irish Examiner, Aug 2).

It is the dependence of our political-economic system on economic growth that is causing our problems.

Those who regarded conspiracy theorists as crazies must surely have to rethink their position in light of recent events.

Michael Clifford deplores Enda Kenny’s supposed lack of vision.

In the early ’60s the Verolme Ship Building Co built a shipyard in Rushbrooke in Cork harbour and facilitated the training of hundreds of Irish men in the ship building yards of Holland.

Revisiting the biggest scoop of the ’90s when it was revealed that Bishop Eamon Casey had fathered a child with American Annie Murphy elicits memories of that signal event.