As we approach a number of centenary commemorations over the next few years, most especially the 1916 Easter Rising, the 1918 General Election and the First Dáil Éireann in 1919, calls have been made to be as inclusive as possible as we remember these, and other events, in which citizens died.

The best decision was taken by Cork City Council and the Irish Whale and Dolphin group to have a burial far out at sea of the young fin whale that died last week at Baltimore, Co Cork.

A number of retired police officers from the Republic and Northern Ireland intend gathering at Glasnevin Cemetery this coming Saturday at 2.30pm to commemorate the disbandment of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP).

Why do politicians think more about what they are trying to say, rather than what they are saying? They may then make sense of what they are trying to say.

Dr Laurence Davis of the Department of Government in UCC is well known for his unquestioning anti-Israel stance and it never fails to amaze me how one person could be so totally one sided and blind in his approach to this very complex question.

How dare Diarmuid O’Flynn make excuses for the outrageous action of a Tipperary hurler In the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Semi-Final between Kilkenny and Tipperary last Sunday (Irish Examiner, Aug 21).

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within.

Name the new Liffey Bridge: RyanAir.

Under the policy of this Government, and one that is backed by Fianna Fáil, the reality is that the people in this country will no longer fully own their own homes anymore.

Desmond FitzGerald (Aug 18) says that Mr Kenny’s first act as Taoiseach “was to double his salary and that of everyone he appointed to government”.