One of the measures of how worthless our FF/FG governmental system has become is the ever-increasing number of charity requests, especially at this time of the year.

We at the homeless charity Depaul strongly welcome the measures published in the Public Health Alcohol Bill.

As a senior reporter in Brussels told me recently, this ‘refugee crisis’ is carefully organised.

The incorrect impression is regularly given in the Irish Examiner that women in this country are denied ‘control of their own bodies’ while neighbouring jurisdictions have such rights. One example is a letter by Jason Fitzharris (December 5).

So, refugees will not arrive in Ireland before 2016. That’s great, isn’t it?

When Ms Pauline Tully, the estranged wife of garda killer Pearse McAuley, decided to speak out in the media last weekend, a question was put to her on the radio about ‘why she decided to marry a garda killer?’