One can only feel sorry for the couple (Irish Examiner, July 25) whose home is to be knocked down to facilitate the construction of a completely unnecessary road.

Kevin McCarthy again makes unfounded allegations against the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) (Irish Examiner, Letters, July 30). 

Newspapers report that John Gilligan, in his current challenge to the sale of property in Ireland, has access to three barristers and three junior barristers, all on legal aid, paid for by the Irish taxpayer.

I listened to a radio presenter this morning pouring scorn on anyone who pays for a vital public utility.

In the last decade there has been a rapid change in the structure of Irish society. 

In a letter attempting to smear the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and supporters of Palestinian rights (Irish Examiner, Letters, July 30), Kevin McCarthy makes an untrue assertion about the Limerick screening of the award-winning Israeli film, The Lab.

The latest article by Juno McEnroe, ‘Irish Water: Utility a persistent unmitigated disaster’ (Irish Examiner, July 29) has stimulated reflection. 

Desmond Fitzgerald (Irish Examiner Letters July 3)) tells us that he took a risk on Enda Kenny at the last election despite Mr Kenny’s “lack of intellectual vigour”.

Hospital waiting list figures have continued to grow at an unacceptable rate. Many of our elderly are waiting five to six years for orthopaedic surgery and cataract operations. I have 20 such cases on file.

Referring to oil exploration off the south-east coast, the following are quotations from articles published in the recent past: