I refer to your well-illustrated article re the promotion of the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ (Irish Examiner, February 28).

I am surprised that the efficacy of boards/governors has not been questioned in recent controversies.

Notwithstanding the seriousness of the situation in Crimea, the quote attributed to John Kerry in your editorial (Irish Examiner, March 3) was rather hilarious.

The recent attempts by this government to try to move the collection of welfare payments from the post office to the banks represents nothing less than a scandal.

Jose Emmanuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, in a recent reference to Ukraine, has spoken enthusiastically of “European values” for that country. But what exactly are these values?

I recently wrote to An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, to express my view that the practice of both, his, and his ministers, being off the island, over the St Patrick’s Day festival, is not only misguided, but very wrong.

The cover of night was used in 2008 to ram through the worst financial decision ever made by an Irish government, when a blank cheque was written for the European banking system.

Rehab receives €83m in taxpayers’ money by way of State funding, yet we had chief executive Angela Kerins saying “We are not a State-run organisation nor are any of our staff public servants”.

Over the past few months we have witnessed a repeat of a now familiar process of regime change.

The Ugandan President signed into law on February 24 legislation that criminalises homosexuality. This new law provides for a 14-year jail term for a first offence and life imprisonment for the offence of ‘aggravated homosexuality’.