In his speech at the Labour Party’s conference in Brighton,John McDonnell said Britons were working some of the longest hours in Europe and promised that would change.

Rochdale manager Keith Hill celebrated his team’s FA Cup draw with Tottenham - and defended the right of Dele Alli to win the penalty that almost shattered the hosts’ hopes.

As someone who both spent my childhood in the Republic and who is a PWS (person who stammers), I was absolutely shocked to read the opinion piece “Collecting on the streets for child’s speech, language service” (Aug 24) by Maura Adshead.

LAST week, after I had bought a copy of the Irish Examiner for every member of my family to marvel at the wonder of mommy in a newspaper, I took five minutes out from children’s bath time to see for myself what it looked like.

ALTHOUGH Willie O’Dea polled a massive 19,082 votes at the last election, a new opinion poll yesterday showed he does not have a lot of sympathy among the Limerick public over losing his cabinet seat.