I was intrigued by Ruth Dudley Edwards statement during the the Prime Time debate on RTÉ 1 on Wednesday, 23rd March, when she said that she was proud of the 240,000 Irishmen who had fought in WWI saying that they saved us from terrible consequences that would have ensued if Germany had won the Great War.

Seachtain na Gaeilge is nigh and I always love to pay homage to one of our greatest writers by hosting and attending events centred around the life and works of Sean Pádraig Ó Ríordán, a native of Ballyvourney but who lived in Inniscarra from the age of 15.

Regarding Mary Regan’s article on August 18 (‘Labour bounce could win 20 seats’), as a Labour supporter I am very glad to hear this. After the local elections I thought we were going the way of the PDs and Greens.

For a year now I’ve been passing, on my daily bus journey into Cork City, the location of two very unique milestones near Wilton Roundabout.

IN a recent Irish Examiner, Rajan Raghuram asked the question “Why did economists not foresee the economic crisis?” At the end of his wandering article he cites, “specialisation”, “the difficulties of forecasting” and “the disengagement of much of the profession from the real world”, as the three factors explaining collective failure.

I WAS dismayed when I was told I could not submit my application to the ‘Your country — your call’ website because it was in the first official language of the state.

THE proposed delisting of the River Sullane millrace by the town council in Macroom, Co Cork, raises fears for the future for another structure of local historical and heritage interest.

THERE is huge pressure to rezone more and more land in the Douglas area of Cork city where hundreds of acres are changing hands for huge sums.

VERNON Mount House in Cork has been synonymous with motorcycle scrambling for more than 40 years. To most people, the house is just a building that stands in the middle of the circuit.

MR Robin Bury in a recent letter made a wide-ranging attack on the 1916 Rising and its leaders (Irish Examiner, February 13). Perhaps he or some other members of the Reform Movement would like to deal with the following points.

I READ with dismay your solution to the abortion controversy (Irish Examiner, January 3).

IT IS no surprise that there has been public outrage regarding the illegal demolition of Fr Mathew’s Chapel on Blackmore Lane in Cork.

ALL the giant limestone blocks extending onto the road at Morrison’s Island along Fr Mathew Quay in Cork have been tarred over.

JUNIOR MINISTER Dick Roche states (Irish Examiner, Jan 9) that no one understood him when he met protesters outside Dublin Castle campaigning for official EU status for our language.

NOEL WHELAN’s column (Irish Examiner, January 1) was yet another bash at the Catholic Church.

DR PAT WALLACE, director of the National Museum of Ireland, is to be commended for the very positive and sincere oration he gave at the annual Béal na Bláth commemoration in honour of Michael Collins.

TWELVE years ago, while pregnant, I wept for the people of Basra, when women, children and their elderly relatives were killed while attempting to flee the city, during a war carried out