My son is doing his Leaving Certificate this year. I wish to express my disgust at the decision of ASTI members to reject the Haddington Road agreement, which is supported by the other teaching unions and by other unions within the public service.

The internet is alive with reports of a massive haul of mullet estimated at 140 tonnes a mile south of the Cork coast by herring trawlers.

Regarding Paul Mills’ recent article, (Business, Nov 28) the facts are: ESB management and unions agreed in 2010 re the pension ‘hole’.

Just when are the gardaí and Cork County Council going to get to grips with the gross and excessive speeds on the Ballinrea Road (L2464)?

Pooling their national sovereignty and speaking as one, the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council seem to have found a peaceful formula to a way forward in the Iranian crisis.

Further to the column from the Arts Editor, “Stolen Moments in British Museum” (Nov 4) in which he demanded all artefacts held by the museum should be returned to the original owners, on Nov 24 Channel 4 and The Sunday Telegraph covered the likely discovery of the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world, the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

The caption under a photograph on page seven of yesterday’s edition (Dec 2) described me as having “defended Labour’s role in cuts”. Any reading of the accompanying article by Juno McEnroe would demonstrate that I did exactly the opposite.

Recently, the media has highlighted the level of greed and immorality regarding money, salaries, etc, that still abounds in Ireland today.

For the second time in as many weeks I have heard supporters of two of the top ten Irish charities, ie, those charities whose CEOs earn in excess of €100,000 per annum, say that ‘ if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys’, or words to that effect.

The All Blacks had a security breach on their recent trip to England. Somebody read their motivational message when they inadvertently left the door to their team room open.