UNIVERSITY of Limerick, civil engineering students are looking back more than 800 years to see how modern logistical problems can be solved.

A TWO-DAY conference to celebrate the life and times of Jack Lynch was opened by Taoiseach Brian Cowen at University College Cork yesterday, Lynch’s alma mater.

I AGREE with the view expressed by Dr Gerald Morgan (‘Why Irish nationalism failed the stress test, Letters, March 1) that we must look further back from 1916 in order to appreciate fully the divisions that existed within Irish nationalism.

CONGRATULATIONS on Caroline O’Doherty’s series (January 1/2) and your editorial on planning (January 2).

TIM COWHIG of the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) states (Irish Examiner, November 6) that “wind power is the only economic and viable option to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels”.

I AM currently undertaking a study of the impact that the World War I had on Tipperary town and county.

TARA is under threat. The National Roads Authority continues to perpetuate the fiction that Tara is confined to the cluster of monuments on the hilltop. This is not the case.

RURAL women have received scant attention in modern Irish history, Protestant rural women even less so.