The term ‘right to life’ infuriates me, when it is used in relation to abortion only, whilst we bear witness in relative silence to the destruction of our very life support systems, by none other then the human species.

Please, Minister, do not remove the subsidy from private schools.

When moral, law-abiding fishermen last week landed their surplus catch of monkfish and distributed it to the local people, they highlighted one of the most nefarious practices within the ‘law’.

With the economic recession compounded by greedy landlords and the relentless increase in annual rates — with last year and this year the exceptions — many commercial concerns have closed. Others struggle for survival.

I would like to express my disappointment at the Irish Examiner’s decision to publish screenshots of the video of the two schoolgirls fighting in Cork.

With child-benefit reform being discussed, perhaps it’s time to restrict the number of children per family for whom benefit is paid, based on the needs of the society.

On average, the National Lottery pays out €1 million every day in prize money.

Former Bloxham economist Joe Gill claims that “when the euro was launched in 1999 every dog in the street knew that economic management in core Europe was far more disciplined than around its fringes” (Irish Examiner 19/9/12).

It is true that we are seeing sad stories in the media, in the midst of our difficult economic recession, almost on a daily basis. As well as murders, suicides and gang killings theere are stories of businesses that have closed down under the pressure of less ‘footfall’ in stores and upward only rent reviews (still not changed by legislation as promised with a sense of urgency before the February 2011 General Election by this new government, who are 18 months in office).

Would the 1982 EU Directive be transposed if Oireachtas members were to rely on an Aer Lingus 96% eroded pension?