Because of the rise to prominence of Paul Murphy, the anti-water-charges TD, I visited the Socialist Party’s website. 

Eddie Hobbs (Irish Examiner, November 19) says he wants Article 10 of the Constitution changed. We could never understand the State, through the EU, giving “equal access to a common resource” and so we sought legal advice.

Dr. Kevin McCarthy’s letter (Irish Examiner, November 24) makes for sad reading. 

While Dr Kevin McCarthy (Letters, November 24 ) may well be correct that “Israel will respond to synagogue attack”, one aspect is not widely known.

€539 million is the final estimated cost of installation of water meters according to Bord Gais (now Ervia), an overspend of €107m on the original figure.

It would appear everything in Irish Water is now hunky dory, other than the costing or not costing of water.

It is sad when good, decent people have to resort to violence to have their human rights acknowledged. It was only when the barracks were blown out and the Tans ambushed that the British army left the country.

Politicians have been explaining why, for the first time in my life, I walked in protest against the Government.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has expressed concern that Tanaiste Joan Burton was “delayed” and locked in her car for two hours. Yes, Joan was denied her basic right to move freely and not be delayed.

Sinead O’Connor has fanned the flames of a silent revolution in her advocacy of a Second Irish Republic. She has brought attention to the Constitution’s inadequacies and its many amendments.