Best wishes to Gaelscoil Mhichil Ui Choileain in Clonakilty which opened this week.

With reference to the debate on the household charge, we are told by the powers that be the charge is for “fire and emergency services, maintenance and cleaning of streets, planning and development, etc.”

I wonder how many people remember the abolition of rates on the family home in 1977?

I WAS pleased to see Michael McDowell start with a copy of the collected articles of Michael Collins, published in a booklet entitled The Path to Freedom, in the first of the RTÉ series Ireland’s Greatest (September 20).