Your newspaper is full of our rosy economic future. But at the same time, we are reminded to save for our pensions and the inevitable rainy day.

To quote Brian Goggin at the banking inquiry: “The day and night of September 29 (2008) was the worst day of my life.” I wouldn’t mind having the worst day of my life and still make €17,021.27 for the day.

Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, May 5) claims marriage is not being re-defined but merely ‘extended in definition’.

There is a poster with an inaccurate message hanging from various lampposts around here: ‘children deserve a mother and father’, they say.

I would like to suggest four ways to support growth while protecting the lowest paid workers in our society — those who do the jobs most of us would prefer not to do. These are jobs paying €8.65 per hour and leaving just €49.43 to live on each day.

I received a speeding fine by post last week. It was €80. I do not speed — end of story.

It is easy to forget the individuals whose lives will be transformed by a ‘yes’ vote on May 22.

Throughout our investigation into the death of Karen Buckley in Glasgow in April 2015, we received, and continue to receive, messages of appreciation from people in Ireland.

Straight teeth and a beautiful smile are pleasing to the eye and make us feel more confident. But the OSI (Orthodontic Society of Ireland) needs to warn people, again, about the long-term harm of ‘quick fix’, supposedly ‘cosmetic’ dentistry treatments.

Fergus Finlay and Neil Breslin have difficulty understanding how any reasonable person can possibly vote ‘no’ in the upcoming referendum (Irish Examiner, May 5).