A recent article in the Irish Examiner (May 16) shows no let-up in the waste of taxpayers’ money.

We welcome moves to include Westbank Orphanage, Greystones, in inquiries into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

Declan Ganley’s suggestion that Europe is just like the Titanic at the moment is a very irresponsible position.

Minister Leo Varadkar has announced (Morning Ireland, May 15) that new security measures are being implemented at Dublin airport as a result of a European audit of airport security.

Now that the residence of the former disgraced Taoiseach Haughey, Abbeville, is back on the market, would it not be an opportune moment for the State to purchase it?

In response to Sean O’Riordan’s excellent article on “waiting list in Cork and Kerry for amputees” (May 14) as an amputee of many years I’m appalled at the HSE and, in particular, the throwaway comment by Pat Healy, HSE South regional director of operations, that he would address “smaller issues” like replacement socks.

It is chilling to read that Cardinal Sean Brady has not resigned after the BBC report of his failure to report to police and parents a list of children who were being abused by notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth in 1975.

I welcome your editorial of May 10, “Time for a debate on road Tolls,” with emphasis on the Jack Lynch Tunnel Cork.

In your letters page (May 11) several MBA students from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, made a number of valid points about economic failures spurred on through the Celtic Tiger days and a suggestion for Ireland to get out of our economic mess by raising our corporation tax from 12.5% to 16%.

Mr Richie Flynn (Irish Examiner, May 11) would be well advised to honestly confront and resolve the problems posed around the coast by salmon farming, rather than engage in sleight of hand exercises in front of an audience that is less well informed about the issues than he and some of the rest of us are.