Ireland calls me a blow-in to my face in Ireland and Irish people in London ask me am I a ‘plastic paddy’.

The Irish Examiner reported (Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013) that the chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said that the fluoridation of water was not a risk to the public.

Re: Fergus Finlay’s “Let’s be honest, . ’medical card probity’ is an excuse to save money” (Opinion, Oct 22) — you bet it is, and if Labour ran the show they’d have to do exactly the same. If not, they’d be irresponsible.

We can march till the cows come home, we can vent our national spleen to Joe Duffy on the radio, and we can waste acres of forests writing to the papers. All to no avail.

Pity poor Mary O’Rourke, and her concern for the Haughey family, over a TV drama none of them has seen yet.

After watching RTÉ do a hatchet job on anyone who questions the current system of anarchy I thought long and hard about a response. It used to be that if you questioned your wider surroundings you were a conspiracy theorist.

The present water shortage in Dublin has more to do with the overdevelopment of Dublin and the depletion of services in the regions, whereby professional bodies, and organisations were drawn to Dublin by the imbalance of broadcasting which we have had since Radio Éireann was established.

What’s the difference between Ryanair and the Government?

If you are the parent of a schoolchild, whether at primary or secondary, their future options for third-level education become all encompassing, and therefore stressful.

Dr Edward Horgan says (Letters, Oct 25) that “the Irish Sea is one of the most nuclear-polluted, because of the number of nuclear power stations and facilities on its English, Welsh and Scottish coastlines, and because its partial enclosure leads to a build-up of pollutants.”