The wife of a 40-year-old farmer who died in an ambulance while on route to hospital in Cork from his native Waterford has spoken of a “quiet, loyal gentle person” who was looking forward to the arrival of their first child later this year.

The James O’Donovan juggernaut continued in the Co-Action benefit in Casteltownkenneigh where he beat Killian Kingston. Brothers Aidan and David Murphy beat Martin Coppinger and Séamus Sexton in the opening score there.

The jury will resume deliberations tomorrow morning in the trial of a 53-year-old Wexford man, charged with murdering a 41-year-old, on whom he stamped a number of times.

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Your letters, your view.

Your letters, your views.

Could it be the case that the fact that we seem to have problem with building or making fit for habitation social housing units, is that most, if not all, of our elected politicians are landlords on a grand scale?

Just in case you missed it, Sky News had a feature on The Trumpster recently titled ‘Trump: America’s Next President’’.

Am I too late in proposing that ‘’meldonium’’ be used as the name for one of those 4 newly manufactured elements of the Periodic Table?

If you want to hear how Mr Zimmerman sounds in Irish, check out the last 15 minutes of Sinéad ar Maidin, that was broadcast on RnaG recently between the the hours of 1045am and 11am, and hear ‘Shelter From The Storm’ performed by Liam Ó Maonlaí of the Hothouse Flowers; it works surprisingly well.

I hope, when the refugees are being divvied up in Ireland, that the stretch of north-west Mayo along the Wild Atlantic Way, from Ballycastle to Bangor Erris, is not forgotten, as is usually the case.

I think you will find that there is rather a large difference between taking down a flag, and changing one’s mindset.

Looking at people in global positions of untrammelled power reminds me of the late comedian Bob Monkhouse, and a joke he told against himself: 

Can we now look forward to rubbing shoulders with Denis O’Brien in the Ryanair priority queue?

Spot the difference between the following two statements;

Result:

Last Thursday, May 7 between the hours of 1pm and 2pm, I experienced a most traumatic situation while attending a ‘Lón Gaeilge’ in The Western Strands Hotel, Belmullet, Co Mayo.

J’accuse the Irish government of selling out to vested interests.

‘Nexus’ is an extraordinarily good name for the current banking probe.

It is not long ago since a late-morning DJ, on RTÉ Radio 1, tormented us by playing ‘Cows With Guns’. No, Ronan Collins, I have neither forgotten nor forgiven.

I know you all have your problems, but which supposedly civilised EU county can boast all of the following?

One of two men charged in relation to the violent death of a Latvian national in Carlow earlier in the week replied with the word "guilty" when the charge was put to him by gardaí, a court has heard.

Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with the death of a Latvian man in Carlow earlier this week.

Between March 30, 1883 and May 30, 1884, a Quaker named James Hack Tuke organised 11 ships to go on 15 sailings: nine to Boston and six to Québec, to transport 3,300 men, women and children from dirt-poor — (literally) — families from Elly Bay, a small inlet of Blacksod Bay in north-west Mayo, to make a better life for themselves in the ‘New World’.

Let’s put the achievement of the women’s international rugby team at the World Cup in perspective, shall we?

I should like to put on the record my opinion that although the sexual abuse of young children by Father Brendan Smyth was undoubtedly criminal, the concealment of those crimes by Cardinal Sean Brady was evil.

Our Enda; brilliant at opening things in the far flung fields of foreign lands like the NYSE and Penneys, to name but two.

In an interview on Morning Ireland recently, Transport and Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar was asked about ministerial appointments to State boards.

The cover-up is in full swing and has been since Henry Kenny (Enda’s father) was bumming around Dáil Éireann keeping the seat warm for his son.

You begin to get some idea of the mindset of the present government when you see its most senior minister almost falling over himself to fawn at the feet of an American billionaire as he arrives at Shannon Airport, followed up by another senior minister being prepared to stand up in front of the cameras to do PR for Bausch and Lomb, to tell its workers to kowtow to its masters, or else...

From politics to religion and business, the names and faces may have changed, but the mindsets, have, if anything, become even more entrenched in dogma and group-think.

Martin Callinan is a perfect example of the phrase ‘when the going gets tough, the tough gets going’.

I have just watched the film, Philomena — about Philomena Lee’s search for her son — in a Maltese cinema.

How touching it is to see the ‘major Cabinet figures’ circling the wagons to protect the Minister for Justice and Defence, Alan Shatter, from the slings and arrows of those outrageous Indians outside The Pale.

So the head honcho of the newly constituted Irish Water is claiming that the cost of ‘fixing’ the system he inherited is going to cost us €10 billion.

Louise O’Keeffe is remarkable; her innocence was destroyed by an agent of the Irish State, yet her naivete regarding a politician’s apology remains undimmed.

Location: Portlaw, Waterford

At first blush, Warren Buffett’s decision to invest nearly $1bn of his investors’ money in the VHI would go a long way to explaining his waning powers of Midas, as regards his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle.