I am an Italian secondary school teacher, on a sabbatical year, visiting Ireland. I daily read your newspapers, attend your courts, and speak with Irish people. I envy your system of final examinations in your junior and secondary schools.

Your editorial (Mar 13) would be comical if it were not so ill-informed. You offer no evidence for the alleged €1 billion annual spend on Irish.

Property Registration Authority (“the PRA”) fees have risen significantly from Dec 1, 2012.

I’m delighted the new pope has taken the name of the saint widely associated with kindness to animals.

I wonder if your readers could help me trace the roots of Hollywood actor, Harrison Ford, best known for his roles as Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

I despair at how this country is ‘governed’.

I refer to Stephen Rogers’ article on school principals seeking alternative trade union representation and an assertion therein by the TUI that it represents school principals and deputy principals through its structures.

The Guards, says Ming, are corrupt

The low-budget 1930s film serial, Flash Gordon, with its arch villain, Ming the Merciless, ruler of Mongo, is far more interesting than the ersatz Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, of Castlerea, County Roscommon.

RTÉ is a pro-Catholic institution.