The screen is fading to black. The credits are about to roll. Brookfield's Video Ezy, my local video store, is closing down, writes Marcel Currin.

A prominent MP's mother is facing benefit fraud charges this week which exploded into a ridiculous furore over whether that MP should have been removed, writes Kim Gillespie.

People only pretend to like cyclist. Cyclists are a breed unto themselves with their gaudy clothes and their self-righteous sense of entitlement- I am one of them, writes Marcel Currin.

Roger Moroney writes: I was slightly dismayed to hear a caller to a radio station talking about the issues of wandering off to watch some ICC Cricket World Cup action.