WE are warned not to speak ill of the dead and we often indulge in polite fictions to avoid conflict. In Brian Friels’s case such evasions are unnecessary, his life and work are very easy to celebrate.

IN response to Anne Keohane’s letter (Irish Examiner, August 20), let me point out I didn’t come up with the statistic indicating that agriculture is responsible for 75% of waterways pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency did.

ON Tuesday last I passed five SHARE collectors in Cork's Academy Street, which is less than 100 metres long.