Why was Jimmy Deenihan, a man who was born, reared in and represents the constitutents of the most cultural area of Ireland, demoted?

Like many I was shocked that Taoiseach Enda Kenny would appoint a team with no fluency in Irish to head the Department with responsibility for Gaeltacht affairs.

People say Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney slipped up on radio when he said Irish people already pay €1.2bn for water in existing taxation. He did not.

After Cork’s dismal performance against Kerry in the Munster Final, is it now time for the five weaker football counties to concede to Kerry next year, and just go straight into the qualifiers.

After spending hours over a number of days in front of a computer I finally got a pair of tickets for the final night of the Garth Brooks’ Croke Park concerts. They were got to celebrate a significant anniversary.

So much for inflexible law and the taking of planning decisions out of the political arena; perhaps we were better served by conniving politicians who could get things done.

I’m not the only Limerick supporter annoyed by the allocation of tickets for Sunday’s Munster hurling finals in Páirc Uí Chaoímh.

I would like to comment on an article (July 12), headlined "Gay discrimination case is no cakewalk", by Michael Clifford.

Europe foisted two regional assemblies on the Irish people in 1999.

It’s possible there might be people who are genuinely deluded enough to think a few new faces around the Cabinet table signals that the political class has learnt the lessons of the May election results.