A POWERFUL production of Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans by Ballyduff Drama Group of west Waterford won the Bryan MacMahon Trophy, the top award in the open competition at the North Cork Drama Festival, now in its 54th year.

Veteran soldiers from the North and the Republic have marched together at the first inspection on a UK parade ground by a representative of the Irish Defence Force, it emerged today.

MONSIGNOR Denis O’Callaghan (“Diocese sets the parish record straight,” Irish Examiner letters, April 5) hit the nail on the head when he pointed out how the interests of Cloyne Diocesan Heritage Centre were being compromised.

IN response to the letter from Kevin McCormack (“Have the diocesan records been moved?”, Irish Examiner March 28), the following will help to clarify the situation as far as the Diocese of Cloyne is concerned.

I READ recently how the organisers of this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in Cork are considering sending an invitation to the Orange Order.

WITH council elections fast approaching, voters should remember that never before has so little been achieved by so many.

WHETHER it’s food, clothes, alcohol or household goods, as a nation we shop ’til we drop.