Your coverage of the failure to resolve the issue of undocumented Irish during the White House meeting between Taoiseach Enda Kenny and US President Barack Obama (Stalled US immigration progress ‘disappointing’, March 18) will have brought St Patrick’s Day celebrations in many homes to a swift end.

Last Friday, a new political party was launched here. 

Poor Mr Clarkson, in a stew over a missed steak!

Last week I attended the Diageo-funded meeting here in Galway as part of their campaign to curb binge drinking. 

I believe the European Central Bank (ECB) has questions to answer and I don’t believe the banking inquiry knows which questions to ask even if Jean-Claude Trichet presented himself in front of it.

The National Children’s Hospital should be renamed the Dublin Children’s Hospital as it should not be sited in a city centre location if it’s to cater for all the country..

The government have made it clear that if GPs do not ‘play ball’ on their health policy, there are others in the health sector who will. Presumably they are alluding to private companies.

The child is the most vulnerable of citizens. Adults have a responsibility to raise them with due care and attention to their needs. Our rights as adults must be secondary to children’s.

Suicide is seldom out of the news and for victims’ loved ones, the grief and unfathomable sense of loss endure long after after the event.

There is public scepticsm about the wisdom of the war in Afghanistan said a British newspaper in recent days, a war in which there was “a lack of clear mission aims”.