I have come to the view that Enda Kenny is the opposite of the George Bailey character in It’s a Wonderful Life

May I through the medium of your newspaper offer my full support to all secondary teachers who went on strike this week.

When Commandant (retired) Greenway criticises me for being ‘misleading and incorrect’ in my analysis of the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem (Letters, December 2), it is on the basis that Yoram Cohen, head of Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, told the Knesset these were individual acts ‘and Abbas and the PA were opposed’.

It is hard to fathom how in 21st Century Ireland views like those expressed by the DUP MP Gregory Campbell, that he would treat calls for an Irish language act as “no more than toilet paper”, can be articulated and defended in public?

I am an Irish Research Council-funded PhD student in NUI Galway, in my secnd year. My PhD topic is ‘Irish Catholic Anti-Communism in the era of John Charles McQuaid, 1940-1971’.

Overproduction of petroleum coupled with a decrease in demand for crude oil led prices to drop rapidly over the past half year and we are just now beginning to see the results at petrol filling stations around this country.

While it is right that the abject failure of Irish governments, especially this one, to tackle homelessness should be highlighted it is also important to remember it wasn’t just the other evening the State failed one of its citizens.

It has long been the mantra of “modern/liberal” Ireland that in the past the state was over deferential to the Catholic Church. There undoubtedly was an element of truth to this to the detriment of both Church and State. However those times have long since passed.

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly, has attracted some criticism for apparently overruling civil servants when deciding on spending on greenways, specifically the route along the disused rail line that links Mullingar to Athlone.

Does our Taoiseach have a few dopplegangers wandering about the country? He seems to be so busy opening factories, software houses, call centres, turnings sods and filibustering in the Dáil, how does he have time to run the country?