I agree with Cataldo Litta (Letters, March 16) when he says that interfering with our secondary school exam system and replacing it with an ongoing teacher assessment system will subject teachers “to menaces, requests of favouritism” and “mafioso behaviour”.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, on his trip to the USA, has promised to take up the cause of “the undocumented Irish” living and working in America. These are illegal immigrants.

It has taken smaller countries such as Cyprus and Iceland to stand up to the bully boys of Europe, including the ECB and IMF.

Brendan Butler questions my figures on Catholic membership.

US President Barack Obama couldn’t even meet the Taoiseach on March 17 to accept the ‘traditional’ bowl of shamrock.

Pope Francis faces a daunting task against a media already hard at work trying to dig up some ‘dirt’.

It is a horrendous insult to every taxpayer that 19 of our ministers were jaunting around the world on St Patrick’s Day, and beyond.

With the upcoming sale of the letter from Harry Quinlisk to the authorities in Dublin Castle, about informing on Michael Collins — and the excellent article by historian Ryle Dwyer about this episode in the Irish Examiner last week — when there was a bounty of £10,000 on Michael’s head, I have a contribution.

Just when you think EU and IMF officialdom couldn’t be more out of touch with the reality of EU citizens, they come with this “deal” for Cyprus and prove they are even more out of touch than anyone ever realised.

Having been to Caherlag graveyard recently I was very, very impressed to see what a wonderful job was carried out on the cleaning up of the overgrown graveyard.