Can’t get a handle on this Titanic thing at all.

We write in relation to the withdrawal of teaching posts from 16 rural disadvantaged schools from Sep 2012.

Treoir urges everyone to lobby their local TDs and senators to vote against Section 4 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012.

The juxtaposition of the American Deep South and Ireland (Irish Examiner, Apr 7) may have resonance for Irish Travellers. Your readers may like to know that some councillors in Dublin are not caught under the ‘votes at all costs’ umbrella.

I cannot understand how RTÉ slavishly reports every angry, selfish word from a smug, overpaid elite. Yes, I am talking about the teacher conferences.

Your recent article “‘Liberal’ priest under Vatican investigation” (Apr 6), describes Pope Benedict’s withering attack on Austrian priests who had questioned Church teaching on celibacy.

The Government will soon formulate a constitution of rights for children.

The public read with dismay the media accounts of Redemptorist priest Fr Tony Flannery being muzzled by the Vatican. He has done much good in his life.

Last Thursday I visited Cork for one day. My first trip was to the tourist office — “Closed for Lunch 1 to 2pm.”

With reference to the article (Irish Examiner, Apr 5), Ms Jenniefr Hough states that ‘To be clear, Cllr Paul O’Shea wasn’t asking that all convicts have benefits withdrawn — just Travellers’.