The issue of risk to a pregnant mother’s life is key to the abortion debate.

Shame on ye, at Bank of Ireland.

Mary Regan’s ‘The kiss of death for female representation in politics’ (Forum, Apr 13) debases her argument, such as it is, with cheap shots at Fine Gael and Enda Kenny.

Surely, it is nothing short of blatant interference in our secular republic that the most sinister elements in US society are engaged in big time money raising to boost the agenda of their counterparts in this part of the world.

There is great debate and talk of a national crisis in Brendan Howlin’s efforts to extract €300m from public sector pay.

The day of reckoning is nearly upon us. For almost five years “experts” have parsed, diced, analysed, scrutinised and pontificated on the financial chaos in our world.

John B Reid (Letters, Apr 23) has not learnt the lesson of the Halappanavar tragedy: That there is no way that equal consideration to both the life of the mother and of the child can be given.

I am insulted by the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s comments in Bodenstown this weekend, especially since they were said at the grave of the father of Irish republicanism, Wolfe Tone.

The economists Carmen Rogoff and Kenneth Reinhart, authors of ‘This Time is Different’, have asserted their belief regarding the tendency of both governments and private investors to fool themselves about the dangers posed by debt.

I watched with frustration as the Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, acted contrite on television to distance himself from his party’s role in the destruction of our economy.