So despite the best efforts of the great and the good, the Eurozone economy remains stubbornly stagnant (Irish Examiner, Novermber 18).

The urgent need for greater openness and accountability in the murky world of vaccine trials is borne out by today’s front page report showing the public was kept in the dark about a previously unknown trial carried out on Irish children during the 1960s.

After years of being walked on and abused, we the people have shown the world that the Irish have not lost the spirit of 1916.

In 1979 I recall, as a young boy, being introduced by my grandparents to a friend who had an interest in CB radio and electronics.

Deputy Ruth Coppinger refers to a "political elite" as if she was not a member herself. Desmond Fitzgerald refers to our "political class".

Contrary to the article that appeared( Irish Examiner, November 18) I wish to confirm there is no three month backlog to book an NCT appointment.

Mary Lou McDonald’s recent disobedience in the Dáil towards our democracy, has had me thinking of Phil Hogan, someone I never aspired to agree with politically, never mind allowing him inside my cluttered over-taxed head.

In defending Sinn Fein/IRA, Kevin Girvin (Letters, Nov 21) seems to have forgotten it is not 1920. He’s also forgotten the SF party people joined, in 1918, disappeared by 1923 because people rejected its extremism.

Victor Stevenson, ( Letters, November 22) asks how can Enda Kenny exclude the Westbank orphanage from the remit of the proposed mother and babies homes Commission of Inquiry having stated in the Maíria Cahill case that all allegations of abuse should be thoroughly examined?

Victoria White’s article on the alternatives now facing us (Irish Examiner 20 November) is a strange mixture of honesty and naivety.