Anthony Spencer (Letters, Aug 15) asserts in an indignant letter that there is ‘no discrimination of Israeli Arabs’.

For the benefit of your readers unfamiliar with this type of road, it has a 12km section separated by wire barriers designed to prevent vehicles from crossing into oncoming traffic.

I am trying to find out how many local authority tenants registered for the household charge so they could be exempted from the charge?

The Lottery has come into the headlines more and more.

Despite the exceptionally high levels of rainfall, it is totally unacceptable that major flooding occurs and that local, regional and national roads are rendered impassable.

I have another wonderful idea to share with you all.

In recent times we as a nation and as citizens of this country have been weather beaten by the winds of economic recession, unemployment, political corruption, household charges, church scandals, mass emigration, bailouts and, just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, the wettest summer on record.

Throughout the Olympics we have enjoyed watching fantastic performances from our Olympic athletes, and on their return both Minister Ring and John Treacy rightly applauded them for those performances, and equally rightly, both men have committed to support our Olympic athletes in the future.

Early news bulletins this week carried the sad news that Barnardos’ extreme financial difficulties has led to the temporary closure of its Irish offices.

People are saying that Katie Taylor is worth her weight in gold...