In listing “some things right during the Tiger years”, one item Barbara Scully omits (Irish Examiner, is the installation of a world-class sewerage system in Cork City funded by the EU.

Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act appears to be good news for the neighbours of unruly tenants, but may result in an injustice to the landlord.

Kevin Curran (Letters, Feb 21) exhibits a clear creativity of capture and keen imaginative appraisal, as he sallies forth to defend the good name of the public service and the folk who serve therein.

Next year will commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War. We are writing a book to honour the 2,800 Irish doctors who served in the war and the 240 Irish doctors who died during the war.

I was very glad to hear the Taoiseach’s apology to the women who had the misfortune to find themselves in a Magdalene Laundries. It was the right thing to do and long overdue.

The call for Ireland’s overseas aid to be spent mostly on Irish products (Letters, Feb 20) is badly mistaken.

Potholes can kill. Our health and safety laws are truly an ass. Surely our legislators realise that potholes cause tyre sidewall rupture.

The long awaited apology by Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the victims of the Magdalene Laundries has been understandably welcomed by a society that for more than a decade has revisited the horrors of Irish institutional detainment and abuse.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton is to be congratulated on stating so clearly a fact that is rather embarrassing for Taoiseach Enda Kenny and any other TDs who support abortion legislation, namely, that the “plain words” of the Irish Constitution acknowledge an “equal right to life” of a mother and her unborn child, which right is incompatible on its face with legal access to abortion on grounds of suicidal ideation.

Gandhi once said: “The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”