Person: Dominic O’Neill

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Charities that know no borders

NEWSPAPERS — squashed between their larger electronic rivals — can feel at a disadvantage.

If the charity bag has no identity marks and numbers, don’t fill it

Some charities need to show their credentials

Walking away

Support your local library before it disappears

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Seafarers with a traditional education are facing stormy weather

Why review only one compulsory subject?

FINE Gael are tactically inept to review only the Irish language in isolation.

Thu, 17 Nov, 2005

Hidden History - an alternative viewpoint you won’t hear on RTÉ

RTE’s ‘Hidden History’ on landlordism during the famine (November 9) was a good guide to the past, but a bad guide to present-day Ireland.

Mon, 14 Nov, 2005

‘Cold’ charity thrown back in their faces

A PLAQUE commemorating “the unparalleled benevolence of the English nation to the poor of Ireland” has caused outrage in the Sinn Féin party in Nenagh, Co Tipperary (Irish Examiner, October 28).

Thu, 03 Nov, 2005

Pupils from poorer areas vote with their feet

PUPILS are voting with their feet. More than half the students in poorer areas are dropping out of school before their Leaving Cert, according to a recent report.

Sat, 22 Oct, 2005

Bleak outook for the fair day: care to help?

AS Ireland shifts from rural to urban, horse fairs are under threat.

Fri, 14 Oct, 2005

Deerhunters should ask questions first

IN HIS column headlined ‘Government may allow open shooting season on red deer’ (Irish Examiner, May 23), Donal Hickey suggested that deer cause car accidents and damage farms and golf courses.

Fri, 10 Jun, 2005

Statistical proof

OBESITY statistics were discussed in the Dáil lately. To the casual observer, the nations with the most statistics seem most obese, and vice versa.

Thu, 26 May, 2005

Why we ended up going for a walk in Wales

YOU speculate about puzzling tourist numbers (Irish Examiner, April 4). I was looking up tourism in Walkinstown library in Dublin.

Fri, 13 May, 2005