One of the most profound obligations of a leading university in any major city is its capacity to nurture, inspire, educate and deliver the next generation of a nation’s leadership.

Transport chaos is looming with the Dublin Bus strike, so I was amazed by the comments of the Minister of Transport Leo Varadkar.

Should I fall ill on a trip to Letterkenny hospital, will I be afforded an air-ambulance transfer to my hometown hospital, as Kathleen Lynch, TD, was?

Transparency international ranked Ireland 26th (out of 176) most corrupt country in 2012.

Listening to radio and reading newspapers on the events at Letterkenny Hospital made one certainly find sympathy for the patients in particular.

A separation is needed to remove the issue of illicit cigarettes from the general discourse on plain tobacco packaging.

I am disappointed with the GAA re the timing of the Cork v Dublin All Ireland football quarter-final tonight.

Waterford City Council is planning to develop the so-called Viking Triangle at the Mall, Waterford by erecting monuments to Strongbow and Aoife, and John Condon (the youngest soldier in the British army to die in World War I).

The debate on the proposal to establish fish farming in Bantry Bay and Galway Bay continues.

The people elect representatives to form a government to represent them and lead for a period of five years, after which time the democratic process begins again.