With regard to the ‘Find the #littlethings that protect your mental health’ campaign, let me personally confirm that doing so makes a huge difference to how we feel and cope with life.

The politicians who are declaring that the Lotto changes should be reversed are pathetic. They should be advising people not to participate.

With his last letter, Desmond Fitzgerald questions the intellectual vigour of our Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.

It is not often RTE makes a programme that is wonderful to watch as the Wild Atlantic Way with its three shows of 60 minutes each made by RTÉ Cork and shown the last thre Sundays on RTÉ One.

It was little surprise that Sinn Féin, as part of its determined effort to highjack the 1916 commemoration, held its own August 1 event at the Glasnevin grave of Jeremiah O’ Donovan Rossa.

The following 1916 buildings of National historic importance will be destroyed and lost forever should the NAMA Project Jewel auction of the 1916 Moore Street Battleground proceed.

July’s end saw Bord Gáis Energy-Centrica (formerly part of Bord Gáis) announce a profit of €32m for the first six months of this year.

Just when I was thinking that this FF/FG governmental system could sink no further into the gutter, it comes up with a plan to make more money by decreasing the chances of anybody winning the Lotto.

Mental health care is a complex, challenging and deeply rewarding area (‘Psychiatric patients feel coerced into hospitalisation’, Irish Examiner, August 8).

In the debate on school patronage, much has been said about rights, but have you heard anyone mention the rights of the most important people in education, children.