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Cutting €10bn agri-food industry to meet climate targets is no easy task

Cutting €10bn agri-food industry to meet climate targets is no easy task

Your editorial (December 29) on the Paris conference on global warming focused on the narrow aspect of what you call “the disproportionately powerful farm lobby”.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

We need to amend the eighth amendment

We need to amend the eighth amendment

The only change required under the eighth amendment is to remove the suicidal clause and ‘correct’ the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act which failed miserably to reflect the overriding view at the Oireachtas Hearings that abortion is never a treatment for suicidal ideation.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

The community spirit that battled the Christmas floods is inspiring

The community spirit that battled the Christmas floods is inspiring

Most communities in rural Ireland are being denuded of vitally-important services such as post offices, banks, garda stations and small hospitals.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

Beware the banks getting rid of humans

Beware the banks getting rid of humans

I wrote to my bank to complain about it getting rid of humans and replacing them with machines and I got an automated reply.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

So, that’s the end of minimum pricing?

So, that’s the end of minimum pricing?

Now that Europe has ruled against minimum pricing in the case of our Celtic cousins, can we take it that our plan to outlaw the sale of cheap alcohol has now been scotched?

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

Halawa turned down department’s help

Halawa turned down department’s help

Tom Ryan has said (Irish Examiner, December 24) that “Ibrahim Halawa’s case should be up front and centre to Irish foreign policy, for the immediate release of this young man”.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

‘Penny Dinners’ show showed Cork’s big heart

‘Penny Dinners’ show showed Cork’s big heart

To all those big-hearted people in Cork

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

Don’t rule out women as Taoiseach and Tánaiste

Don’t rule out women as Taoiseach and Tánaiste

In the upcoming general election, it would be unwise to rule out the possibility of having a rotating female Taoiseach and female Tánaiste?

Thu, 31 Dec, 2015

Undeveloped site tax is urgently required

Undeveloped site tax is urgently required

Passing off binding regulations as ‘guidelines’; to allow what became known as ‘shoe-box’ apartments to be built is sharp practice.

Thu, 31 Dec, 2015

Farmers always win if our ecology is at risk

Farmers always win if our ecology is at risk

The announcement before Christmas by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphries that hedge cutting will be allowed in August should be met with shame.

Thu, 31 Dec, 2015