So the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner have publicly apologised for the apparent collusion of a member of the gardaí in the IRA’s murder of two RUC officers.

In Oct 2011 two gentlemen called to my house and asked me to support the Care Trust by completing a direct debit mandate for €15 per month.

In this state we have a total conventional fossil fuel and river hydro electricity generating capacity of 6,200 megawatts (mw).

Protested, to overturn apartheid.

I wonder if many of your readers feel as aggrieved as myself when government ministers tell us how they have “helped the people of Ireland” in the financial crisis.

The biting satire visible or audible on Irish political life is indeed a sign of democracy, painful though it may be.

I have been interested to read reports recently that the Minister for Environment Phil Hogan has prepared legislation for a partial reform of the Senate and apparently presented this to cabinet.

I write in response to your article entitled “20 women’s claims linked to one doctor” (Dec 5).

Excessive salaries in the public sector in a time of austerity, are they justifiable, what is the worth of a man?

I read with interest an article by Cormac O’Keeffe in the Irish Examiner (Nov 25) in connection with inmates in Shelton Abbey open prison being granted permission to have mobile phones. It said they are being given out as part of a pilot scheme to improve prison behaviour.