I agree with Junior Minister Michael Ring that when local communities and tourism interests work together, great achievements will follow.

The crisis in Ukraine can be confusing. Ukraine is a deeply divided country, between the Russian-speaking east, which looks to Moscow, and the Ukrainian-speaking west, which looks to Europe.

Let’s be brutally honest please, and face the fact that if the USA had been in Russia’s position, and had its recent past, they would have sent troops and armour into Crimea, also.

“You just don’t, in the 21st century, behave in the 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up context,” US Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Sunday in response to what is happening in Ukraine/Crimea.

Your classic photograph of An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, earlier this week is unfortunate from an historical point of view.

Your article on the gender wage gap (Saturday, March 1) quotes unadjusted figures, without identifying them as such, which is misleading.

Dear Taoiseach,

We hear it every year; the feeble, unsubstantiated claim that St Patrick’s Day trips, at enormous expense to the taxpayer, yield investment in business in our country.

John Leahy’s letter declares that the members of the EU used ‘the jack-boot in 2010’ causing Irish citizens the ‘appalling austerity for the last five years’.

Calls home to mammy are a part of the Irish emigrant experience, and there will be many of them for rugby star Brian O’Driscoll’s last home game for Ireland, against Italy in the Aviva stadium.