Sir, King Henry II, in 1170: “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?”

Brian Cody hailed the work of the Kilkenny medical team after patching together key players throughout the season.

Refrigerators may soon contract viruses and malware, much like a computer can.

My late mother spent 40 years as a teacher. She loved her profession. She was one of five siblings who followed this path, between them giving two centuries to Irish education. I am very, very proud of my family’s contribution.

Bridget Jones fans got a little more than they were expecting with her new book - 40 pages of David Jason’s autobiography.

Kevin Curran (Letters, Feb 21) exhibits a clear creativity of capture and keen imaginative appraisal, as he sallies forth to defend the good name of the public service and the folk who serve therein.

I have been a public servant for 20 years and am saddened by the demonisation of my sector.

A Kerry sheep farmer who drove his vintage tractor, Betsy, across America’s famous Route 66 last month has so far raised €25,000 for cancer research.

SO the country’s going down the tubes, we should default on the national debt, we’re seeing news items about the Irish illegal immigrants in the Big Apple, and now, just to confirm that we’ve entered a time warp back to the 1980s, another abortion row, followed by another call for a referendum.

WILL the new levy apply fully to the funding of politicians’ pensions?

FINE GAEL deputy Leo Varadkar informs us on his website: “I had forgotten how fortunate I am to live in a country with a temperate climate, fertile land, functioning institutions, a productive economy, reasonably well-run public services and politicians who, despite their many flaws, are motivated more by patriotism and community than by self-interest.”

IT was with dismay that I heard of another politician involved in making an inappropriate intervention in the judicial process.

YOUR report (February 29) on RTÉ presenters’ pay means I will take a more jaundiced view of the station’s reports on the pay of polititians or public servants.

A FORMER head of finance with National Irish Bank is opposing an application by the director of corporate enforcement for a court order disqualifying him from involvement in the management of any company on unfitness grounds.

A RETIRED National Irish Bank regional manager has told the High Court it never crossed his mind to consider, when bogus non-resident accounts were identified as existing within National Irish Bank branches in the 1990s, that DIRT should have been deducted from the accounts and paid to the Revenue Commissioners.

THE main perpetrators of wrongdoing relating to bogus non-resident accounts in National Irish Bank in the 1990s were certain branch managers, including maverick managers, and it was incredible that the inspectors who investigated NIB did not hold them responsible in some manner, a retired NIB regional manager has told the High Court.

A PROTECTED structure has been saved from council demolition by local environmentalists.

THERE has been much comment in the media recently regarding the kindness of the Taoiseach’s friends in helping him out in his hour of need.

THE Director of Corporate Enforcement is seeking documents from the inspectors who investigated the National Irish Bank tax evasion scandal of the 1990s.

A FORMER executive with National Irish Bank has been disqualified from acting as company director.

WOULDN’T it be ironic if, having been convicted of entering Columbia on false passports, the Colombia Three were now to face charges of entering Ireland similarly.

The UK should treat China as a trading partner rather than a threat, a British government minister said today at the end of an official visit to the region.

UNION leaders warned of a fresh “emergency” in manufacturing after almost 1,500 job losses were announced on another black day for industry in Britain and the North.

Union leaders tonight warned of a fresh “emergency” in British manufacturing after almost 1,500 job losses were announced on another black day for industry.

The average pay packet of a UK chief executive ballooned to £1.7m (€2.5m) last year, a survey out today showed.

Chief executive of British Airways, Rod Eddington, is to have talks today with union leaders in the hope of resolving the ongoing dispute over the introduction of clocking-on swipe cards at Heathrow.