Though not a Labour supporter, I take my hat off to Eamon Gilmore. He and the Labour Party have followed a quiet, but determined, ‘Tallaght strategy’ in Government over the last three years, putting the interests of country first and the interests of party second.

Terry Prone’s article on ‘challenging sexism with humour’ is apt (Irish Examiner, May 12).

It is welcome the unemployment rate is dropping, but statistics can be deceiving.

Now that the concerns expressed by Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe over the past number of years seem to be finally acknowledged, I would like to commend Michael Clifford and the Irish Examiner for their excellent reporting on this matter from the beginning.

With the arrest of the leader of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, TD, it was interesting to hear the Democratic Unionist Stormont First Minister, Peter Robinson, accuse leading Sinn Féin figures of using "bully boy" tactics in relation to the party’s future support of the PSNI.

This Friday will be the 40th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, in which 34 people were killed, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, as well as a family of four (a four-month-old baby, her 18-month-old sister and their parents).

The next time your readers are putting a lump of coal on the fire, having paid their carbon tax, they might bear in mind that their carbon footprint according to the information been feed to us, is contributing towards global warming.

The threat to the post office network has galvanised people into action and now Fine Gael and Labour are now trying to convince people that the post office is secure in their hands. Our local rural post offices network can only survive if it remains a major outlet for the payment of social welfare benefits.

There may be insufficient evidence to convict Gerry Adams of involvement in the abduction, torture, murder and disappearance of mother of ten children Jean McConville, but surely the leader of the Republican Movement knows who ordered and carried out the crime, even if the IRA denied it for almost 30 years.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Environment Minister Phil Hogan are claiming that 40% of the treated water in this country is lost on leaks.