Saturday 18 May 2013
WE have schools which were thrown into chaos by a former education minister, health facilities which were closed by a health minister, a golf course approved on a World Heritage Site by an environment minister and a vastly expensive, non-existent road from a transport minister.
I COMMEND Cardinal Sean O'Malley for boycotting Boston College's commencement ceremony due to the college's decision to bestow an honorary degree on the militant anti-life, anti-Catholic, pro-abortion Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.
THE CBI's call for money tied up in the stalled A5 project to be spent on other roads improvements projects is very welcome. NI Conservatives have been saying for some time that the monies must be reallocated in order to provide lasting benefits.
SAVE stamps for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Send to: 14 Kingsnorth Road, Gillingham, Kent, MT8 6QY.
NORTHERN Ireland Deaf Bowling: Larne (April 20) £368; Bangor (April 27) £189.00.
HUNTER Davies describes how Manchester United radically altered the game off the pitch (Comment, May 10).
SO Gerry Adams objects to unfair questioning. Not nice to be taken off guard, is it, Gerry?
Alex Ferguson would never have seen the wonderful rise in the fortunes of Manchester United if it was not for the greatness of his captain, Roy Keane, who was pivotal in the rebuilding of that team.
ISN'T it about time that, Christmas Day apart, we did away with Bank Holidays?
IF someone is not going to re-offend, either because they are incapable, or because they are under arrest, publicly divulging their identity is not necessary to safeguard the public.
SOME years ago, I realised that, when it came to bringing ordinary people together and asking them to find space for factions to agree on, their common sense was way ahead of the politicians.
I WELCOME the amnesty vote in the Oireachtas on behalf of those Irish soldiers who left the army in wartime and enlisted in the British forces (Comment, May 8).
AS we continue to be doused in 50 shades of rain, I am reminded of one of my favourite writers, Jonathan Swift, and his musings on precipitation – Description of a City Shower, written in 1710 and published in The Tatler.
MARGARETA Pagano (Comment, May 9) says the elephant in the room, when discussing the lack of women in the boardroom, is the cost of childcare. She is wrong.
I AM writing to highlight the perilous state of the Northern Ireland fishing industry and the lack of media coverage and public ignorance concerning it.
I ish to commend the staff at the Inland Revenue office in Wellington Place in Belfast.
Cardinal Sean Brady seems to have a knack for doing the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.
In the 1980s, I did my inadequate best to defend a soldier facing a court martial for desertion.
David Kelly's statement about Ronnie O'Sullivan being the finest player ever to have graced the green baize is quite off the mark (Sport, May 7).
Your correspondent BPR (Write Back, May 9) draws attention to "Sinn Fein's historic support for the Nazi regime and history of anti-semitism".
The jackpot for the US Powerball Lottery has reached 600 million dollars (£395 million) - just 56 million dollars (£37 million) less than the record from the March 2012 Mega Millions jackpot, which was split by three winning tickets.
A woman who disappeared while swimming off the Lincolnshire coast has been found alive after a major search operation.
An oil laundering plant with the capacity to process more than 2.5 million litres of fuel a year has been discovered in Dublin.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has confirmed the club will not be extending on-loan defender Emanuel Pogatetz's stay at the club.
Ryan Giggs says new Manchester United manager David Moyes can count on the support of the club's senior players when he begins the daunting task of replacing Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is confident the recruitment structure put in place over the last year will ensure the club do not waste money in the transfer market.
Lindsay Lohan is dodging Brooke Mueller in rehab despite repeated attempts on Brooke’s part to reach out to her, according to a new report.
The Bling Ring star Emma Watson laughs off playful hearsay she and her cast mates may have pulled off the Chopard jewellery heist that went down in a Cannes hotel room Thursday night.
Beyoncé Knowles is expecting her second child with husband Jay-Z, a source has confirmed.
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