IF the history/geography teachers are feeling sorry for themselves regarding changes in secondary curriculums, what about parents of secondary school pupils regarding textbooks?

YOUR tips on seed saving are timely (Property & Interiors, August 20).

SAME old nonsense every year about Leaving Cert maths results — five out of four students struggle with fractions and the like.

I AM surprised that VE Barrett (Letters, August 24) reckons a Margaret Thatcher would be good for the country.

THE Catholic Bishops Conference, in a synchronised set of four announcements in March 2009, advised that Pope Benedict XVI appointed the Archbishop of Cashel & Emly as Apostolic Administrator to the Diocese of Cloyne at the request for Bishop John Magee.

A DEFENCE put forward for the current Leaving Certificate points system is the claim that all students are treated the same and consequently the system has an in-built fairness.

A DEFENCE put forward for the current Leaving Certificate points system is the claim that all students are treated the same and consequently the system has an in-built fairness.

ONE picture speaks louder than a thousand words.

I’M furious at the state this great country is in — the inequalities to ordinary decent people suffering at the hands of selfish, patronising greedy politicians still on very comfortable salaries.

IS there not a sense of “here we go again” about the late and inadequate apology of Archbishop John Magee?