Last week EU president Jose Manuel Barroso assured us that “Ireland had turned the corner”.

Our deficit is 15bn per year, every cent of which must be borrowed.

As an author of several books on 1916, I’m seeking your readers’ help in researching my next effort.

At Christmas time, Rathkeale becomes the centre of attention as members of the Travelling community come to the town for the Christmas season and this can be portrayed in a negative way by the local and national media.

I am writing this letter to question why people are still attending Mass in the Catholic church.

John Fitzgerald (Letters, Mar 4) complained that there was no excuse for hare coursing.

As a fellow participant in the RTÉ Late Debate programme last Thursday.

The news that bonuses for bankers are to be curbed is to be welcomed.

It is quite impossible to imagine the Carpenter of Nazareth sitting comfortably with the richly dressed cardinals assembling in Rome to elect his successor.

For many with phobias of lifts and being stuck in one, the scenario that Ministers Kathleen Lynch and James O’Reilly endured in Grangegorman, though horrendous, was tempered by having doctors and psychiatrists entrapped with them.