The people of London host the Summer Olympic Games once again this year.

Property tax to be taken from PAYE?

We have all heard military use of the word “collateral damage” to mask damaging events.

Although you could somewhat understand Roy Keane’s remarks about the Irish fans singing after Ireland’s defeat by Spain at Euro 12, they were not singing because their team lost.

The Pensions Board recently announced new funding standards for occupational pensions.

May I endorse Ted Neville’s suggestion (Jun 19) of remembering the Irishmen and women who answered the Carlist appeal to join in coalition with General Franco and his fellow-mutineers in the Crusade to overthrow the Spanish Republic?

On Jun 12 you published a letter from me regarding the manner in which the HSE deals with false allegations of child abuse.

The embarrassment of Euro 2012 is a chance to rethink how we organise our game. The issue is not the current manager, or the current players, they are doing the best they can. The issue is our non-existent national style or national plan.

In the “Sunday Letter” for June 17, published at the Dominican Priory in Tallaght Village, and distributed in churches throughout Ireland, the author states: “The place in which we find ourselves is the place to which God’s providence has led us: the families we are born into, the villages, towns and cities where we live, and even our country — God has placed us here for our greater happiness and for his glory”.

Watching the Spain-Ireland game was like being at a Cork-Leitrim hurling match, such was the gulf in skill and finesse.