A local initiative to celebrate and honour Liam O’Flaherty, one of Ireland’s greatest polemical short story writers, will stage an informal event in Galway’s City Library on Thursday, Nov 29, between 6 – 8pm.

ON July 16, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an updated briefing document in relation to the H1N1 virus infection (swine flu).

A TIMELY and interesting article headlined The Breast Cancer Epidemic was published recently in The Actuary, a professional magazine for actuaries in Britain.

MICHAEL O’DRISCOLL (Letters, October 3) makes the mistake common to many religious apologists regarding the anthropic principle.