Once again the Revenue publish a list of defaulters and list the “settlements”.

The people of Ireland are being dispossessed of democracy and our Constitution. While claiming to protect the Constitution, Taoiseach Enda Kenny is crushing the democratic rights of elected representatives and voters.

While tourist injuries and deaths during the horrific ‘running of the bulls’ garner attention, it is rarely reported that every involuntary participant dies — and painfully.

K Nolan (Letters, Jul 8, 2013) says “A professional rugby tour sponsored by a disgraced bank. What more does one expect?”

For weeks, the Vatican’s men in Ireland, its bishops and nuncio, have been politicking in respect of the Government’s Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill.

Cork was not included in bi-lateral agreements between Ireland and the US, so it is only since the EU–US Open Skies.

They used say in Cork ‘football was a game for those not intelligent enough to play hurling’, but we have good hurlers on our football team wasting their talents.

Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton is a young, learned politician, who stands for what is right.

Cork Airport, despite existing since 1961, has no direct US flights, unlike Shannon and Dublin.

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place”.