I do not understand why RTÉ is the primary investigatory body in the country when it comes to investigating fraud in the body politics or government agencies.

Cribs come in all shapes and sizes, and exuding varying degrees of piety or cheeriness, depending on which set of people or what establishment happens to be displaying this Christmas tradition. 

Joan Burton has accused Mick Wallace of putting Irish people at risk, by highlighting the US military use of Shannon (Irish Examiner, December 18).

Michael A Moriarty (Letters, December 12) described the war in Syria as the “conflict” — the use of inverted commas thus intimating that to describe what is happening there as conflict to be arguably inaccurate.

Speaking to the world following the historic COP21 agreement in Paris, President Obama said, “Together, we’ve shown what’s possible when the world stands as one.”