France have banned the use of the word "hashtag" from all government documents.

Claude Levi-Strauss, the influential French intellectual widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died aged 100.

I WAS heartened to see Maureen Gallagher’s letter (Irish Examiner, January 18) in support of the Western Writers’ Centre in Galway, following the refusal of the Arts Council, for the sixth time, to give the centre funding.