Could it be the case that the fact that we seem to have problem with building or making fit for habitation social housing units, is that most, if not all, of our elected politicians are landlords on a grand scale?

May I ask President Higgins to bear in mind that at a cost €40 million a further General Election may well be the best option for the Irish people when one considers that Department of Finance officials have confirmed that Independent TDs had already submitted proposals costing €13 billion.

Permit me to relay the contents of an email from Saint Patrick:

The so-called terrible beauty that WB Yeats said was born in 1916 was nothing of the sort. What materialised, in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, was a Catholic state and the transfer of dominion from an imperial power to an ecclesiastical one, an outcome that Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen of 1798 would have abhorred.

With reference to the page one story in the Irish Examiner, Saturday, April 9, 2016, we wrote to our bank inquiring about a mortgage interest rate change as we saw the article saying a new lender is expected on the Irish market offering mortgage interest rates of 2.75%.

I note that the Gaeilge version of the above sacred shrine tideal is sidelined of late; this is perhaps in aid of Tourism Ireland also.

I refer to your article about Indaver in talks to bury 40,000t of ash at Bottlehill, North of Cork, in April 14th’s Irish Examiner.