It seems there was never a recruitment ban in effect.

I fully support John Fitzgerald’s letter (May 4) and his abhorrence of the barbaric activities of cock fighting and badger baiting.

In the Irish Examiner (Jun 2) you included a guide to the Euro 2012 competition in Poland and Ukraine.

Further to the correspondence from Emmet Murphy (May 28) and myself (Jun 1), I now believe that I was incorrect in agreeing with his proposal that the number of TDs should be reduced to 38.

So the people of Ireland made their choice and when that choice was between voting no, and continuing to allow the Irish political class to make decisions, or voting yes and handing all decision making powers over to Germany, we choose Germany.

Maurice Fitzgerald (Letters, Jun 2) says Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin are engaging in a wasted dream about a united Ireland.

It seems clear that signing up to the fiscal treaty following the referendum and the European Stability Mechanism funds when we already have too much debt and a broken economy is just rolling this snowball down the hill, collecting more unsustainable debt as we go.

The poor turnout is just as good, and convenient, a reason for another referendum as a no vote would have been.

The closure of three creches by City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, in Whitehall, Ballyfermot and Cabra, and in other VECs around the country, is caused by a complicated set of circumstances.

In the run up to the fiscal treaty referendum I received a leaflet from Fine Gael urging a yes vote.