A terrible cloud of failure and boredom seems to hang over this Government. Too many false promises, as well as some of the old traits of corruption as they place their cronies in big jobs in unnecessary quangos.

For 70 years, as boys and men, my brother and I listened to Radio Éireann at home and later when living abroad like the woman, Agnes Forde, whom you interviewed recently (Irish Examiner, November 7).

Have we learnt anything in the 100 years since the beginning of World War 1? I don’t think so. Maybe we are all materially more comfortable than we were in 1918, but many problems are the same.

It is beginning to seem obvious that a major war is just round the corner.

The use of social media site, Tinder, in exposing sex-trafficking is to be applauded (Irish Examiner, November 11) as it increases awareness of this crime.

It’s a ‘bloody’ disgrace that four Irish MEPs refused to support a motion to end annual EU subsidies to the cruel bullfighting industry. 

Zoe Lawlor criticises Ciarán Ó Raghallaigh for not showing ‘one shred of empathy or sympathy for the more than 2,200 people killed’ (Letters, November 13) in this summer’s tragic conflict in Gaza. 

While driving home from work recently, I listened to a radio discussion about the water charges. 

It was reported in the Mayo News that disaffected farmers threatened to block the path up Croagh Patrick, because of a row with the Department of Agriculture about commonage-based grants.

News that the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork is to be privatised by the National Roads Authority is absolutely crazy.