FOR SALE: Bachelor Pad, one careful owner for the past 88 years.

Tommy Barker reports on the house of the week in Berkeley, Beaumont, Cork

Menloe House is a noble historic home in one of Cork’s most affluent locations, writes Tommy Barker.

MAZO de la ROCHE wrote 16 Jalna books and while forgotten now, her Whiteoaks series was a huge success in its day.

DESPITE the grossly unjust generalisations being made by some in response to the Ryan report, it is crazy to speak of the Catholic church as a corporate entity being responsible for these outrages.

TONY PROCTOR (Letters, October 7) appears to believe that a Catholic ethos in schools tends to stunt high performance in mathematics, science and technology and that more generally it is inimical to a true spirit of educational inquiry.

THE story of the surrender of the world’s richest fishing waters, consisting of the seas surrounding Britain and Ireland, is one of the most scandalous in the history of the EU.

DR DEIRDRE Madden's view (Irish Examiner, Feb 3) echoes that of Baroness Warnock in Britain – that at the beginning of pregnancy one is dealing with a collection of cells. This is scientifically unsound.