Richard Barton is right to criticise the Minister for Health for the faults of the health service ( Letters, November 7). 

Eamon Gilmore’s “brooding resentment”, as you name it, (Editorial, Nov2) precisely characterises the stunted arrogance of a careerist self-server. 

If the Government proceeds with further regulation of the housing market, already under pressure landlords will be squeezed out of the market, thereby reducing available accommodation and causing further homelessness.

Irish tax payers, some not yet born, have bailed out commercial banks, because these banks along with the Central Bank of Ireland run and control Ireland by diktat.

Last week I attended the Web Summit.

This new enthusiasm by the gardai seemed like a great idea... at first.