During the 2012 angling season Mt Collins/Brosna Anglers Association put a lot of information we had in our possession into the public domain in an effort to highlight the shocking demise of a once famous river called the Feale.

I am a pensioner and unfortunately the road that leads to home is not paved with good intentions; in fact, there is very little road left!

If there is one thing we have learned from the banking disaster and the horrors of the Magdalen Laundries, it is that we should no longer place passive trust in authorities and regulators.

I am writing to you about bullying. Bullying is in all secondary schools in Ireland, and all over the world.

Suzanne Harrington (Life/Style, Feb 11) says same-sex marriage is as good a milieu for raising children as heterosexual marriage, provided they receive “love, security and respect”.

I do not know what has surprised me most in the last week.

While Catholics are sad at the resignation of Pope Benedict, we are delighted that he left with such dignity.

In 1999 the Irish people passed the 20th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, the purpose of which was to recognise the constitutional importance of local democracy in the form of local councils and& local government.

So the IBRC has been liquidated. However, judging by the howls and heckles on the night, some of the Government TDs were quite liquidated too.

Make no mistake, the march organised on Saturday, by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions was not just about the bank debt. It was also an anti-austerity march.