I am voting in favour of the children’s rights referendum.

With no media or PR advice, Vita Cortex built up an 9,000-strong support base in 20 countries — because people believed in their cause, writes Eoin English

Family and friends of the Vita Cortex workers are planning a candlelit vigil at the factory next week.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have called on affiliated unions across Munster to back a march in support of the Vita Cortex workers in Cork tomorrow.

THE recent request by AIB to the Department of Finance to have the salary cap removed for their new CEO is infuriating.

BORED in Bordeaux? Lonely in Llanelli? Or just plain maudlin in Munster?

I FIND it deeply worrying that in the same week in which Bertie Ahern and his colleagues received disgusting pay increases, the CSO released statistics revealing that the rich/poor gap is as wide as ever and that childhood poverty is still a very real and prevalent factor in modern Irish society.

THE National Suicide Research Foundation recently revealed that hospitals treated a staggering 11,000 people for self-harm. The report went on to stress the link between drug/alcohol consumption and increasing suicidal tendencies.

WHAT type of health service do we really want?

THE number of new high-rise buildings in the Bishopstown and surrounding areas of Cork city has been further highlighted by the recent granting of planning permission for yet another such development at the Dennehy’s Cross junction.

DEPUTY Billy Kelleher has called for a curfew system in certain areas of Cork city as a means of tackling anti-social behaviour. The proposal is reactionary, lacks vision, and will ultimately compound the problem. It is the easy answer.

AS we are only weeks away from negotiations crucial to the peace process, it’s time for some hard decisions.