GIG WISE: Is Ed Sheeran the next Garth Brooks? After already selling out three dates at the O2, the Suffolk singer-songwriter has announced yet another concert, on Friday, October 3.

THE removal of the mural on the Lee Fields (Irish Examiner, August 12) was an act of municipal vandalism. The painting over in green of a work of art is akin to the Taliban demolishing the Great Buddha in Afghanistan.