Your editorial of Monday, Oct 15 asked who would benefit from the oil drilling.

I refer to your article “Exporting waste — opportunity squandered” which appeared on Tuesday.

Why do those behind Ireland’s sex ‘trade’ oppose Sweden’s anti-prostitution and trafficking laws?

We wish to express our disappointment, frustration and anger at the cuts the Government are proposing before Christmas.

Despite what Anna Karin Kingston, (Letters, October 17), may claim, feminists cannot be depended on to help men.

What is happening to the residents of Priory Hall Apartments Dublin absolutely beggars belief.

Bravo to the team involved with the improvised Halloween Murder Mystery currently running at the Cork Arts Theatre.

Opponents of the €100 million annual subsidy to fee-paying schools claim that it subsidies a privileged education for an exclusive elite.

In response to the opinion piece in Monday’s Irish Examiner by eight Fine Gael TDs challenging the Government’s stance on the Croke Park agreement, all high earners, be they public or private sector, must accept a significant reduction in their incomes if we are to get out of our difficulties.

It is interesting to note the muted response to Transport Minister Leo Varadkar’s “withdrawal” of the additional €36m subvention to CIÉ. Still less his stated reasons for doing so.