I receive letters from sports/youth clubs and other associations, including Midleton Men’s Shed, asking for local authorities to acquire vacant sites and buildings that have been left undeveloped since the collapse of the property market.

A golf club in north Cork has been thinking outside the box to try and help the red squirrel thrive — and has a video to show how popular the initiative has been with the under-threat animals.

Highlights include Liz Bonnin on tigers and the final episode of Game of Thrones.

Blanket assumptions of predestined roles to be assumed by the sexes have bedevilled the human species.