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We in Mayo cannot have it both ways, on the one hand saying we are Dublin and Kerry’s equal but on the other suggesting Louth might somehow make it hard for us next Sunday

Reading the results of the most recent census in Wednesday’s Irish Independent by Caroline O’Doherty was revealing (‘Census says we need more of everything, not more of the same’, May 31).

Now might be a time for both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to issue a joint apology to the Irish people regarding the Civil War that ended 100 years ago this week.

Given that all boxing should be banned, if only on health and logic grounds, how can anyone suggest Katie Taylor is a role model for either boys or girls?

Aged 93, Dr Loftus seemed eternal. Your scribe, a 70-year-old, is writing about a man whom he first heard about in the early 1960s

I welcome the positive news that Stormont’s first minister designate Michelle O’Neill is to attend the coronation of King Charles III, as will President Michael D Higgins. It seems we as people on both sides of the Border are growing up – or at least most are.

By John Cuffe I write colour. Or opinion. If you want fact, statistics, technical breakdown, then you read the sports reporters and ex-managers and players for…

Desart Court was described as one of Irelands most outstanding architectural triumphs

By John Cuffe One of the early interviews with Kevin McStay relayed how he was enjoying the honeymoon period as Mayo manager. How odd thought I?

1,425 mobiles were confiscated in the country's 12 jails last year - a rise of 4%