Former president Patrick Hillery, who died in April, is to be honoured at a summer school in his native Co Clare.

I WAS one of many people who saw a radiant Nuala O’Faolain speaking at the Merriman Summer School in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, in August last year. She gave a presentation to a symposium entitled What Were We Like? during which she was joined by novelist Anne Enright.

YOUR columnist Fergus Finlay (August 28) outlined the implications of closer cross-border arrangements flowing from the Belfast Agreement and its aftermath.