Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Duignan will go head to head with incumbent Tommy Byrne for the position of Offaly GAA chairman at next month’s county convention.

How about balance in the reporting of Nelson Mandela? The glowing tributes are too much.

An alien would be forgiven for thinking Ireland is a state of the US. Watching our national, TV news they would see happy-clappy, feel-good stories about our leader, Barack Obama, and his policies. They would barely know of our near-neighbours, the UK, and even of Europe.

All fixtures are tomorrow unless stated

Cavan SFC favourites Cavan Gaels crashed to a shock 1-10 to 0-8 defeat to competition outsiders Castlerahan at Kingspan/Breffni Park.

In the same way that RTE has warnings in advance about ‘product placement in this programme’, I believe that ‘This following programme contains agenda pushing’ should also precede the RTE News, The Late Late Show, The Saturday Night Show and Miriam.

What’s the difference between the graphic images showing the horror that smoking can cause, and graphic images showing the horror than results from abortions?

Eamon Reilly laments the fact of religion having evolved to irrelevance in Europe and general and Ireland in particular.

THE ordinary people of Spain got rid of terrorist group ETA by marching in the streets in their hundreds of thousands regularly to let them know they weren’t wanted.

THE demonisation of Fianna Fáil by the media for the past two years has worked at last.

I’LL take Shane Ross, David McWilliams, and Fintan O’Toole seriously when they donate all of the profits from their books to Irish charities.

SOME people blame “secularisation” for many of our ills, but Eamon Reilly (Letters, May 5) stoops to a new low when he blames our suicide rate on it and says faith is the answer.

I TAKE issue with the rather simplistic analysis of suicide offered by Eamon Reilly (Letters, May 5).

YOU report (April 29) how the alarming rise in suicide levels was described as a “national disaster”.

IT SEEMS from the letters of Eamon Reilly and Brendan Cafferty (March 19) there’s a new policy that “if you can’t stop the message getting out, try to undermine it by attacking the messenger”.

I COULDN’T believe the brass neck of Martin McGuinness calling for Cardinal Brady’s resignation.

EAMON Reilly’s response (‘Believers are the real victims of discrimination’, Letters, February 22) to my letter of February 17 is rather disingenuous.

FOR Andrew Doyle’s information (‘Democracy is abour rights of all’, Letters February 17), my statistics about people’s belief in God come from the Eurobarometer poll 2005 (Letters, February 13).

IN his letter (February 13), Eamon Reilly claims “recent statistics showed that 95% of people in this country believe in God” and therefore there is some democratic mandate for such a majority not to accommodate the rights of all.

IRELAND is supposed to be a democracy. Recent statistics showed that 95% of people in this country believe in God.

THE argument that “Irish women are going abroad to have abortions anyway, so why not let them have them here?” doesn’t make sense.

IN his letter headlined ‘Church will survive despite the media’ (January 4), Eamon Reilly reminded me of an incident that is said to have occurred as Napoleon marched on Rome.

AS a long-time fan of Dr Tony Humphreys, I was sorely disappointed with his column (Feelgood, December 18).

WE have a global crusade against Christianity at present.

DISCIPLINARY chiefs in Tyrone have launched a probe into an alleged assault on a referee at the end of Sunday’s SFC final between Dromore and Ardboe.

Cavan Gaels 1-10 St. Gall’s 1-12 AET

IN his letter (July 22), Eamon Reilly describes those of us who have chosen formally to defect from the Catholic Church as “conceited, self-centred individuals” who “never wanted to be in it in the first place”.

AFTER reading your anti-Catholic feature (‘Faithfully departed’, July 16), I must respond. I’ve always thought those who leave the church because of the evil wrongdoing of a tiny minority never wanted to be in it in the first place.

I CAN’T help wondering. Is George Lee becoming a TD a case of gamekeeper turned poacher?

I DON’T believe Fianna Fáil is going to get the beating at the polls today predicted by the media. Remember 2007 when the media told us Bertie Ahern was being heckled all over the country.

HAVING watched many forgettable, Late Late shows hosted by Gay Byrne, I have to say that Pat's show was just as good if not better than Gaybo’s was.

WHAT is it pensioners always say about young people?

Cavan 0-11 Limerick 2-8