I am delighted with the enlightened proposal of Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar, that our place names have equal status in the Irish language on new road signs, as these are put in place in the coming years.

WE are asking Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, to reverse the party’s stated policy of making Irish an optional subject at Leaving Certificate level.

LIVE GAA coverage will soon become the poor relation in the RTÉ sports schedule.

CHINESE poet Zhang Ye has been dropped from the programme for this year’s Féile na Bealtaine (Festival of May) in Dingle, Co Kerry, due to the SARS scare.