Last year I filled out the local property tax form and handed it in to the local council with a cheque, no problem.

Is hurling going to the dogs? The recent NHL final between Kilkenny and Tipperary was a disgrace.

After spending the last two weeks in continuous rain and no sunshine, I’ve come to the conclusion that May 1 is both the first and last day of summer.

I cannot believe how cars have to weave in and out to avoid potholes in the road.

It’s best practice to ignore the self-serving agendas of sporting organisations. But the comments of Tipperary’s county chairman, Sean Nugent, on the rivalry between his county and Kilkenny, in a recent interview with Jackie Cahill, deserve a response.

A worker on the helpline for the property tax has been suspended, amid allegations they used credit card details to attempt inappropriate transactions.

If we were able to peer through the smokescreen of all the legal niceties surrounding the abortion issue, we could see the effort to justify a mother taking the life of her unborn child is the absolute contradiction of Christianity.

My condolences to the family and friends of Donal Walsh.

Europe is the grip of an economic crisis, businesses are failing, unemployment growing and reports of poverty and distress widespread. Ireland has been given a bail-out by a foreign power.

Many facets of Irish society have become imbued with a delusional sense of personal entitlement to a standard of living that is neither sustained by underlying economic fundamentals, or bears any rational relationship to the value, or contribution, that they provide in return — and that especially includes politicians.