RTÉ has a blind spot where religious faith is concerned. 

The media coverage on the Junior Cycle reform and the strikes by the teacher unions to-date suggests there is no public mood to take the concerns of the teachers into account. 

Every day we hear politicians and journalists say that we don’t pay for water in Ireland.

I first climbed Carrauntoohil when I was 14 with a group of scouts from the 21st Cork CBSI.

There is growing discontent within Irish people about the ineffectual political system. 

I’d have thought Fergus Finlay is around long enough and is removed from partisan party politics long enough to make some sense of our present political and economic situation. 

So, the local authority budget was passed by the city council in Cork finally and the council saved from abolition. The theatrics that went on beforehand were just a charade. 

Your article “Fund shortage could silence speech project” (Irish Examiner, November 13) resonated with me because I have struggled with a speech problem in my life.

I was intrigued to read MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s account of his recent experience of the emergency department when taking his seven week old child. Mr Flanagan likened it to a “ war zone hospital”.

It’s 25 years since the Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu went to the balcony of his party headquarters to address his people and finally realised that they weren’t waving in joyful support, but in rage.