SPEAKING at the Joint Committee on the Constitution, the chairman of the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, Willie O’Reilly, is reported (November 12) as expressing concern at the practice whereby media outlets are required to provide equal time to both sides in a referendum debate “regardless of the merit” of any argument.

PLANS for a private hospital in the grounds of a Limerick hospital face further delays following An Bord Pleanála’s decision to reinstate an appeal originally deemed to be invalid.

ENID O’DOWD’S letter (‘Did anyone vote to run down our health service?’, July 3) was remarkable for its honesty and clarity.

A MOVING statue has gone AWOL.

THE reaction of our newspapers to the declaration of independence by Kosovo has been almost uniformly positive. The attitude seems to be that as a small nation, we should welcome the emergence of this new ‘state’.

DERMOT DESMOND would have done himself a favour if he had kept his mouth shut and not publicly responded to the Moriarty Tribunal Report.

One was a full-back, the other a goalkeeper. Diarmuid O’Flynn brought Fan Larkin of Kilkenny and Cork’s Martin Coleman together.

LEINSTER coach Declan Kidney has chosen an experimental 37-man squad for pre-season friendlies in England.

Blackrock College have named their side to play Garryowen at Stradbrook Road in the AIB league tomorrow.

A MULTI-MILLION euro residential and business development on the outskirts of Nenagh, Co Tipperary, has been granted planning permission by Nenagh Town Council.

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