Your article on the Ouroboros production of Shakespeare’s Richard ll (May 1) contained one factual error.

On Morning Ireland last week Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said that his department was working on overdrive to get REPS and AEOS payments out to farmers to alleviate serious cash flow on farms.

Fine Gael’s refusal to honour its pre-election commitment not to introduce abortion legislation is a betrayal of the trust of the Irish electorate, and a sad day for mothers, fathers and babies.

Was it cowardice or something more devious that prevented Finance Minister Noonan’s presence or representation at the Bank of Ireland’s AGM?

President Higgins has castigated the very austerity measures his Labour Party colleagues so enthusiastically embrace.

Doctors for Choice welcomes steps to deal with the X Case.

I wish those bigoted people would stop using that ridiculous term “Abortion is not a cure for suicidality”.

I was asked to come over for the Gathering with a euro gift of €1,000.

Great to hear that the EU has banned bee-harming pesticides, but this wonderful news is overshadowed by the fact that our own Agricultural Minister failed to take a stand against the use of products that threaten, not just bees, but by extension the vital process of pollination upon which a high percentage of our food depends.

The Irish Institute of Psychiatrists announced recently that they are not willing to be the country’s ‘social policemen’.