SOMEBODY may have suggested it without my noticing but an immediate saving of one-third of the cost of the Dáil club can be effected by applying our sacred constitution.

RECENTLY I drove through Castlemartyr, currently being banjaxed by Cork County Council, which should have built a bypass there. I left the 50km/h and 60km/h zones and, after about half-a-mile of 100km/h, we were slowed down to 60km/h on a newly surfaced and lined stretch of road.

Northern Sports Minister Edwin Poots will face tough questions at Stormont today over plans to build a £240m (€318.9m) stadium project at the former Maze paramilitary prison.

MIGHT I suggest to Environment Minister John Gormely that proper phasing of traffic lights would go quite a way to achieving our carbon emissions targets.

MIGHT I suggest to Environment Minister John Gormely that proper phasing of traffic lights would go quite a way to achieving our carbon emissions targets.

I AM used to driving from Cork to Dublin - the second and first cities of this State - and enduring the bad surface, ambiguous and arbitrary road markings, not to mention the interminable delays passing through towns and villages on the route.