Aer Lingus shareholders are voting to accept proposals to safeguard pension benefits for staff following the near collapse of the IASS scheme.

IN the future when in Berlin, Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan can reassure Angela Merkel by prefacing their public statements with John F Kennedy’s famous admission: ich bin ein Berliner.

THERE are those who say “come on – it was only a game.”

I WAS greatly amused during the week by the remarks of the Cork senior hurling team who feel they must be interviewed holding a sponsored drink (value to them, €500) - or else they will stay silent after the Munster final on Sunday.

DANNY MORRISON’S piece entitled ‘Republicans no dunces in a land of slow learners’ (Irish Examiner, June 21) is an unworthy ex post facto justification for years of IRA murder and mayhem during which thousands died and tens of thousands of lives were ruined.