At the end of the Second World War, or The Emergency as Éamon de Valera preferred to call it, he signed a book of condolence in Dublin for Adolf Hitler following his death.

On Monday, May 6, my wife and I returned from a winter break. Exiting the airport we hired a taxi from the official rank and requested to go to Heuston Station.

As the result of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy in 1968, as evidenced by my being given up for adoption, I feel that there is a distinct lack of consideration for the best interests of the unplanned and unwanted child in the womb in the current debate.

It emerged this week that pupils attending private schools and those opting to take the Leaving Certificate through Irish were in the two highest categories that progressed to third-level education directly.

I am one of the 40,000-plus voters who have signed a pledge, never again to vote for Fine Gael if that party reneges on its pre-election commitment with respect to the X case.

I write this in memory of my father and his comrades who served in the Irish Army during the Emergency.

The recent speeches and media comments attributed to President Michael D Higgins, and the explanations that he and Labour Party ministers subsequently made, have unfortunately politicised an office that must be above politics.

Concern must be voiced about the abortion bill.

As a taxpayer I already have an objection to some of my taxpayer euros going toward allowing medical card holders to receive the so-called ‘morning after pill’ for free on prescription from their GP.

I feel compelled to write to you in frustration concerning a matter which I’m sure many of your readers will sympathise with, and this is the so-called re-registration contributions which are requested by many second-level schools.