While I appreciate new developments that will benefit someone who has had a stroke (‘Game tech would benefit stroke patients’; Mar 9)) , I passionately feel it is more appropriate to refer to stroke survivors as that — survivors.

Diarmuid O’Flynn says the promissory notes ‘deal’ “being trumpeted as a triumph by the Government” is an oversell (Letters, Mar 9).

Oh what joy! Government loves me!

Jacob Goode (Letters, Mar 5) asks why, despite a ‘controlling and abusive’ institutional Church, people don’t ‘wake up’ and stop going to Mass?

I was appalled listening to the interview with Ms Fehily of the Revenue Commissioners on the Pat Kenny radio show on Thursday, Mar 7.

There needs to be reasoned debate on reform of the Common Agriculture Policy and everyone who has an interest in our countryside and villages has a stake in that argument.

As the cardinals enter conclave to elect our new Pope, they should keep matters simple.

Two recent editions of your paper informed readers that laws are being proposed to prohibit the possible dismissal of teachers whose sexuality may be at variance with the ethos of religiously based schools.

Regarding Justin Bieber’s UK meltdown: “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul” (Matt. 16-26).

The intense campaign of veiled threats, bullying and the instilling of terror and fear in people, which has been the hallmark of this Government’s two years in office, reached a new level in the past week.