PATRICK Martin’s excellent letter (August 17) proves how things have changed since that sunny Sunday morning 50 years ago when I heard a former member of the Defence Forces being referred to as an “Irish Black and Tan”.

AS an Irishman whose ancestors were prominent advocates of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, I am appalled by the sentiments expressed by Senator Liam Twomey (August 12).

THE commercial production by a Galway company of a new feed ingredient derived from seaweed will enable the production of the world’s first organically raised farmed salmon, it was announced yesterday.

A Co Louth school teacher has been jailed for two years for indecently assaulting a 12 year-old boy more than 25 years ago.

Indiana Girl came from last to first to claim the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil Stakes at Dundalk.

Deauville Vision bounced back to the form that brought her the Irish Lincolnshire in March to win the Kerryman Ruby Stakes in a common canter at Tralee.

Transcripts documenting the horror and confusion among hundreds of firefighters and paramedics on September 11 were released today by the New York Fire Department.