In early 1989 I attended a seminar at the Insead Institute in Paris.

I think many families in Ireland would take offence at Fr McGillicuddy’s comments (Letters, June 13).

Eddie Hobbs, when commenting on the Mick Wallace affair, stated that the Dáil technical group was like an old boys’ club.

I had the honour of playing the Waterville Links course in Co Kerry last weekend.

Concerning your review of Justice live at the Marquee, unlike previous electronic acts to play the venue, such as Prodigy and Faithless — “whose best days were behind them” in the words of the reviewer — Justice are “as current as you can get”.

Never before have we seen such hysteria at the beginning of a sporting competition as we did recently at the Euros.

RE “Jedward are carrying a torch for noise and not music” (June 11) it may interest your reader to know that John and Edward Grimes were chosen to carry the Olympic torch for the amazing amount of charity work they do in Ireland.

The country is bankrupt with an annual deficit of €15bn, which means we need to borrow €300m a week just to keep the country going.

What is wrong with our society that so many people, especially young people, are caught up in despair and misery?

Normally he would be too readily available everywhere to comment about local government legislation and taxing matters but Deputy Luke Flanagan seems to have gone very quiet on fellow TD Mick Wallace.