The decision by Pat Kenny to leave RTÉ is a gift gone sour. This gentlemen and some of his colleagues acted like leeches when this country was in serious trouble.

I listened to Enda Kenny at the opening of the Macgill Summer School in Glenties, recently and was pleasantly surprised and impressed.

Are Liverpool FC serious?

John Daly’s article entitled ‘What Lies Beneath’ (Forum, Aug 3) is timely in light of the recent publication of the Green Paper on Defence.

The NBRU should be applauded for taking the first step.

Ruairi Quinn’s speech at the Magill School was full of little gems. My favourite is “.... in equipping our young people for the future, we know that the acquisition of knowledge itself will no longer be a key skill.”

There is a perception that the legislative process is disengaged from the people. To address this, and to have better law, many Oireachtas committees frequently invite members of the public, groups, and organisations to have a say early in the development of legislation.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that those leading the Dublin Bus strike are not blindly stuck in an intra-union 1970s timewarp when their predecessors could bully the public with impunity because there was little alternative to the State services across an inefficient city road network.

The Government is borrowing €1bn every month to keep the public services going.

Re the letter from Jim Cosgrove (Letters, Jul 22).