The university presidents have suggested that, at the end of fifth year, students could sit exams in maths and Irish to try to reach the matriculation requirements for college entry.

When I was a teenager, the recruiting advertisements for Oglaigh na hEireann (Parkgate Street) invoked heroes from the days of Fionn MacCumhal, Brian Boru, through to the IRA of 1916-1921.

The question is often put as to why Irish people lack confidence on the beach.

As I read the Irish Examiner on Aug 20 I saw the large crowd who braved the wind and the rain to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Michael Collins’s death.

Joe Gill’s article on Irish grass (Irish Examiner, Aug 15) has much to commend it, but it does not reflect a good grasp of the science of climate change.

Jim Cosgrove takes Victoria White to task about her concern that there are so few women ‘in positions of power, particularly in politics’ (Letters, Aug 22).

I sympathise greatly with Kilkenny’s Michael Rice on the horrific injury he suffered as a result of downright dangerous play in last Sunday’s All Ireland Hurling Semi-Final.

The confirmation from the research by the Central Bank that Ireland has the second lowest approval level for small business loan applications in the eurozone, coming just ahead of Greece, comes as no surprise to me and the people of Ireland.

We should really take a moment to acknowledge the fact that a US federal judge has cleared the Vatican of being “employers” of a certain notorious paedophile priest (Letters, Aug 22).

Amid reports that Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, was consulting with former party ministers and TDs on the future of the party, it should be pointed out to him that they are most certainly not the future.