I write this letter in bewilderment at the state of Munster Rugby today. A team with real potential, they need support but unfortunately the bulk of the supporters don’t live in the city where the team has been decreed to play their games.

Like anyone who represents a party or parties before our courts, I read with concern the comments by the President of the High Court about a shortage of judges.

In the Irish Examiner, October 13, you quote Alex White Communications Minister: “a sequential postcode structure is not feasible or necessary”.

Poor Joan Burton. She thinks the Germans pay her expenses and wages. So someone ring Labour and tell them they’re finished in the next election. They’ll answer phones paid for by the taxpayer and drink Dail beer paid for by you.

Pope Francis has gathered 200 bishops in Rome to discuss family life.

We are asking Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald, given her commitment to reducing prostitution, to introduce laws that will end exploitation and human trafficking.

So Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin, has three homes: one in Belfast, one in Dundalk and a ‘little holiday’ home in Donegal. Isn’t it well for some and he only earns the average wage.

The Simon Community’s homelessness awareness week revealed a stark truth: most of us sleep in our beds at night knowing that others huddle outside in the cold and rain.

The Central Bank’s proposed restriction on mortgages is a welcome step in stabilising house prices. Yet it is astonishing to hear people complain because it prevents them from borrowing beyond their means.

Tom Fitzgerald (Irish Examiner, Letters ) says if one believes in God one must believe in the Devil, an evil entity that causes human suffering.