WITH reference to your recent editorial on marriage, allow me to make a few points about human well-being and happiness.

THE recently published English version of the Latin missal is the one version for use at Mass in all the English-speaking countries. The type of language used is very much in harmony with its purpose. That purpose is the worship of God.

KILFEACLE defeated arch rivals Clanwilliam to book their place in the semi-finals of the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup with a 30-7 victory.

FR Tom Kelleher (Letters, June 4) asked the right question: Have the so-called “productive” disciplines of technological and economic studies taken over exclusively in all third-level institutes and universities?

CORK cloud computing has made banner headlines, as did the demonstration for Queen Elizabeth of its leadership in the fields of nano-electronics and photonics, and we are all applauding these magnificent achievements and of course hoping that lots of jobs will follow for our eager young men and women.

MAY I avail of some bit of space to make this comment on abortion, on this cascade of destruction wrought on those to whom we owe the greatest solidarity and duty of care.

THE family of a woman who went missing from a Dublin hospital more than 30 years ago are overjoyed at a decision by a coroner to direct further excavation work to be carried out in the vicinity of a trench which was filled in the morning after she disappeared.

A lot of us are still around who remember this time 70 years ago when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the world was again set in flames only 20 years after the guns were silenced in the catastrophe of the First World War.

FATHER Tom Kelleher seems to miss the point entirely (Letters, May 31). It is not that the Catholic Church in Ireland should withdraw from public life and stay in the sacristy.

DO you and Terry Prone feel free and content about dismissing Jesus Christ as lightly as she did in her column last Monday morning (Irish Examiner, September 11)?

TWO sitting Fianna Fáil TDs were last night automatically selected to run for the party in the Meath West constituency in the next general election after a third candidate withdrew his nomination.

HAVING just heard of the possibility of the Pope visiting to Ireland, may I make a plea that you would spare your readers the anti-papal, Paisleyite language frequently used by some of your writers such as TP O’Mahony and Suzanne Harrington.

A taxi driver who stashed cannabis worth €2.75m in a ditch behind his home has been jailed for six years by Judge Kevin Haugh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE deepening row between postmasters and An Post could lead to the closure of post offices and cancellation of counter services if a solution is not found, the Irish Postmaster's union (IPU) has warned.

TOM KELLEHER estimates that An Post values his role in running a stand-alone sub-post office at 2 euro an hour.

East Cork Crane Hire is reaching for new heights following an investment of more than £0.5m in new plant and equipment.