THE Wild Atlantic Way tourism initiative is obviously a success, well planned and executed, paying dividends to the geographically marginalised communities through which it passes, writes Damien Enright.

Schoolchildren are spreading the message about the importance of wearing seatbelts and being visible on roads at night, and some of the best campaigns were rewarded yesterday.

Estate agent Damian Murray has been blessed - twice - with a West Cork home sale now called the Old Priest’s House - even though a priest never lived in it.

Productive gardens and cropping polytunnels, hen house and run, fruit and secret gardens all on 1.2 acres near the coast, and an extended former two-up, two-down cottage that’s now a three-bed with flair, is on offer at West Cork’s Lislevane.

A three-year-old boy was fighting for his life in a Dublin hospital last night after being struck by a car in West Cork.

IN his letter (October 13), Alastair White has yet another swipe at the Greens, calling them opportunists for having some influence in government based on a 3% share of the national vote.

THE group calling itself Mother Alliance Ireland (Letters, September 21) again calls for further “debate” and accuses others of trying to silence them as a result of their scare tactics against the cervical cancer vaccine.

KATHY Sinnott (Letters, September 6) calls for the HPV vaccine Gardasil to be withheld from all parents and children pending what she calls “an honest debate”.

I FIND disturbing the publicity given by your letters column (August 25) to an organisation calling itself ‘Mothers Alliance Ireland’ and websites trying to use scare tactics against the HPV vaccines.

FOR Patrick Geaney (Letters, June 3) to accuse Foreign Minister Micheál Martin of anti-semitism is outrageous. As Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Martin has had to deal with Israeli forgery of Irish passports for the purposes of murder, putting all travelling Irish citizens at risk.

SOME people blame “secularisation” for many of our ills, but Eamon Reilly (Letters, May 5) stoops to a new low when he blames our suicide rate on it and says faith is the answer.

IN his letter (February 13), Eamon Reilly claims “recent statistics showed that 95% of people in this country believe in God” and therefore there is some democratic mandate for such a majority not to accommodate the rights of all.

NORA BENNIS (Letters, November 30) suggests that Catholic domination and segregation of schools is required as the apparent only alternative is “theophobic indoctrination”, which would be no better.

AS a member of a family affected by breast cancer, I am appalled at Keith Nolan’s cheap shot that “if these were cases of male breast cancer, the machines and systems would have been sorted out years ago” (Letters, November 9).

IN HIS letter making the case against Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion, Fr Con McGillicuddy (Letters, September 17) says that “commonsense provides irrefutable evidence, based on simple but cogent arguments” for a grand design by a “benign and caring creator”.

THIS prime chunk of West Cork real estate could be ‘a lucrative investment’ according to Henry O’Leary of Property Partners, Henry O’Leary.

Three men appeared in court today charged in connection with a £750,000 (€1.1m) cocaine seizure from a “drugs factory” in Northern Ireland.

WHAT is it about Health Minister Micheál Martin and pubs?