In 1956, as an orphan of 16 years of age, deprived of a secondary or third-level education, I was forced to emigrate because my country was unable to provide me, and thousands like me, with employment.

I am more shocked and angry that people like the Taoiseach, Minister for Finance and others, claim that they too are shocked and angry at the revelations from the Anglo tapes.

It is time to stop pussyfooting around what has gone on with the banks. We don’t need another inquiry, we need action. Call in the law.

How dare Michael McGrath say that the two Anglo executives “lured the State and the taxpayers....” into a trap.

I cannot really understand all the commotion about a free vote.

In the year 2063 Ireland will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of JFK’s visit, not the 50th anniversary of Clare Daly’s comments to Enda Kenny.

In the 1960s, I worked as a midwife and paediatric nurse in England, before the days of prenatal screening and David Steel’s Abortion Act of 1967.

Except by happy coincidence, no committee of unaccountable, posturing bureaucrats anywhere will ever come up with anything sensible for the long-term good of their country.

Ultan Murphy rightly comments (Letters, Jun 23) that so-called renewable energy bears all the hallmarks of another property bubble in the making, for which we will pay a high price.

Congratulations to Clare Daly for speaking out about the real Obama as opposed to the one so many millions hoped for.