I read with interest that our Minister for Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, has taken it upon himself to ask Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland to review their support for greyhound sport in light of the RTÉ Investigates programme recently aired.

Residents in Skerries are without water because of a heatwave increase in demand and because there is, according to Irish Water, “a lot of horticulture in the area”.

It’s Carlow - the town, the county and its people - who will suffer because of the Leinster Council’s scattergun approach, writes Brendan O’Brien.

THE news of Manhattan coming to Ballsbridge (August 29) is as unwelcome as Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane for the small number of TDs who describe themselves as ‘full-time’ on their websites, and require a respectable base within commuting distance of the Dáil.