One elderly lady to whom I spoke in the run-up to the Fiscal Treaty Referendum rounded on me angrily when I suggested a ‘No’ vote, asking: “Don’t you want your pension?”

It looks like Michael Noonan’s cherished dream of Ireland remaining in the euro is about to become reality.

As documented in a scientific peer reviewed journal Nuclear Medicine Communication in Jan 2012, researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the cardiovascular disease, the world number one cause of death globally.

Brian Boru “thrice forgave all his outlaws the same fault”, but even he would baulk at letting the Quinn clan keep €500m in exchange for three months in prison.

Hot on the heels of the “Mortgage to Rent” scheme, that benefits mainly private housing associations and the banks, comes another outrageous case of taxpayers’ money being used to further enrich these associations — and many would argue to the detriment of our community as a whole.

With the latest announcement of jobs in PayPal, and the fact half of the number are imported people with language skills, I would like to ask the teachers running our Dáil why we are not teaching kids these languages by now?

Victoria White (Opinion, 19th July) openly says of herself: “I am not ‘reasonable’.”

In the wake of the attack on the memorials in the Limerick cemetery I visited the graveyard and found that damage has been done to the wolfhound at the base of the Manchester Martyrs’ memorial.

Alcohol is not just a young problem.

Is the latest ‘failure in communication’ within the cabinet a watershed for this coalition?