THE three pillars of any Irish village have always been the church, the creamery and the GAA pitch — and the triumvirate is still relevant today, even in a digital age.

I AM not surprised that Jack Lane (Letters, October 8) is impervious to new evidence that his vendetta against the memory of Elizabeth Bowen is ill-founded.

DR MARTIN MANSERGH TD refers to a private communication from Brian Girvin as proof that Elizabeth Bowen’s secret reports to the British government about Ireland during the war were not spy reports (Letters, September 26).

CONTROVERSIAL plans for Ireland’s first bio-diesel ‘green fuel’ production factory have been withdrawn.