Michael Clifford’s article, “It seems this is no country for old women”, on Saturday, August 23, spotlit discrimination against older women in Ireland.

All this hand wringing about abortion and other social issues is so typically Irish and makes one fear that despite everything that’s happened over the last six years, nothing has changed. We all know that there won’t be any meaningful reform or change as long as Enda Kenny’s generation of the grey old men from the 1970s is still in control. Mr Kenny is nothing if not the political son of Liam Cosgrave.

Emmet Murphy’s comments on the former taoiseach, late Albert Reynolds, suggests a particularly Irish beatitude — “Blessed are the begrudgers, for they shall see their names in the papers.”

Severe traffic congestion in wet miserable weather and gross personal inconvenience inflicted on tens of thousands of locals and tourists are unlikely to inspire much public sympathy for the cause of striking rail workers.

I refer to your editorial (August 23, The price of beef) and strongly disagree that the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney can do nothing about it. Mr Coveney has a central role to play in the beef sector.

On Saturday last, on Dublin’s O’Connell St, a young woman with a group seeking abortion rights offered me a leaflet.

Not only does our Government still promulgate the notorious, obesity-promoting diabetogenic American food pyramid, but articles in your newspaper woefully lack of knowledge of human biochemistry and misinform the public about dietary advice.

There is a groundswell of anxiety about pylons and wind turbines in the country and many are

The United Nations Security Council, and the five permanent members (US, UK, France, Russia, China), need to be seen to take decisive action in relation to ISIS activities in Iraq.

Now that Albert Reynolds has passed his part in the peace process won’t be forgotten. A man who was involved with FF, a tribunal and skeletons in a very big FF closet.