One could feel sorry for Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

A 40-hour week on the national minimum wage earns €346. The contributory State pension is €230.30 per week

In statements reported in your newspaper (June 23), Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald, lacks understanding of the asylum processes.

Our town is famous. We have an effective flood barrier and a lovely new streetscape.

The policy and performance of a government is open to criticism.

The daily slaughter and huge refugee crisis in Syria are not a concern for Eamon Gilmore or his fellow EU foreign ministers; they’ve been asleep. They show no outrage, horror, or shame at the abandonment of Syria to atrocities, barrel bombs, starvation, gassing, and other inhumanities.

Terry Prone tells us that ‘shouting abuse at journalists’ is not good (June 23). Why is it not? The media are as much to blame for the bankruptcy of the country as the politicians and bankers.

In 1937, Irish voters enacted the Constitution, affirming the State’s adherence to pacific settlement of international disputes by international arbitration or judicial determination.

The celebrated State debt relief Taoiseach Enda Kenny sold to the media is a mirage that has been replaced by ‘loose money’ to be given to banks to lend to small businesses.

If properly planned, high-density housing is not the urban hell that Cllr Noel Collins (Letters, June 21) suggests.