THE IRA should be recommissioned and hooded for one final little bit of active service: a volley over the grave of the man to whom they owe so much.

WELCOME to the centenary of the great ‘Frisco quake and, here, the impending Ice Age II. Happy new year.

JUST released: McDowell v the prison officers in the ‘Taming of the Screw.’

PAISLEY and McGuinness, Bush and Bin Laden, Hitler and Stalin, Laurel and Hardy.

I WISH to congratulate Sinn Féin on the introduction of their first budget in the Free State.

AFTER re-election, revenge. After triumph, terror.

THE daughters of Cork are out of their heads from alcohol and something called Devil’s Dandruff (Irish Examiner, October 4).

Not so much a reshuffle... more a death rattle.

I SEE our Cork friends are rapidly running out of suitable names for a new bridge over the Lee in their Beautiful City.

IF ever I’m caught ‘speeding’ on the N8 from the Jack Lynch tunnel all the way past Watergrasshill, I’ll try my luck on appeal.

REMEMBER Comical Ali?

SO Rónán Mullen thinks Ralph Nader, the old consumer rights warrior and erstwhile Green candidate for the White House, is an ‘extreme’ left-winger (Irish Examiner, Dec 10).