MISSED BY ALL: The Menu was saddened to learn of the recent death of Biddy White Lennon, a fellow member of the Irish Guild of Food Writers, of which she was both a founder member and former chair.

DRIVING through Mitchelstown, a town whose easy traffic is still hard to get used to after being bypassed by the M8, I turn up a cul-de-sac and pause at the gates of Ballinwillin House.

I AGREE with the views expressed in your letters column recently about the lack of rest places for truck drivers.

THE Green Party has called on Sinn Féin to clarify the status of constituency activist Sean Kind, who got a six-year sentence yesterday in the Special Criminal Court for possessing firearms.

A Cork man described as a "dedicated republican" and anti-drugs campaigner was jailed for six years today for possession of firearms for an unlawful purpose.