THIS WEEK I received a notification from permanent tsb that due to a rise in interest rates, my mortgage repayment would be increased from mid-March. The notification was signed off “I trust that the above is to your satisfaction”.

THE 84th anniversary of the Kilmichael ambush, one of the major engagements of the War of Independence, was commemorated on Sunday, November 28, in the presence of 1,000 people at the ambush site.