Once again, we hear of serious violence during a GAA game in Donegal.

The Croke Park II deal is worthless in reducing our deficit.

If former taoiseach John Bruton wants to preach, he should give up his €140,000 per annum pension, wrote Matt Cooper recently.

As a soldier in an army occupying West Germany, and West Berlin, I remember walking through utter devastation in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.

This attack on the Hurling League Final between Kilkenny and Tipperary would have nothing to do with the fact that Cork were relegated this year, would it ?

Whatever about the past abuses in the quashing of penalty points, surely it is blindingly obvious what should happen in future — the next time a garda hands me a ticket for something, all its details should immediately and automatically appear on a publicly accessible website.

For those of us who have accepted our penalty points and paid the fines, it’s stomach-turning to see how easily those in the know, and with influence, have had their points wiped for what would appear, in many cases, no good reason.

Juvenile crime is on the increase, so it was backward to close Spike Island prison.

The brave testimonies of the women suffering from the after-effects of abortion given to the cross-party politicians in Leinster House this week confirms the fact that, far from being a treatment for mental illness, abortion, in many cases, can actually induce it.

Enda Kenny has increased child poverty. He has spent €50,000 on photos of himself.