I have read all of the articles which you published in respect of the Mahon Report.

Will those who have decided not to pay the household charge be waiving their right to assistance from the ESB, Bord Gáis or the water mains local authority if there is a problem with the supply of these services into their homes?

So, after the child abuse reports and the Anglo Irish Bank conspiracy comes this doorstop of shame.

Dear Big Phil, I write this letter to you in the faint hope that you would give me a straight answer without any spin or, shall we say, “uisce faoi thalamh”.

I am writing to you on behalf of Mount Mercy College girls’ school in Cork about the murder of Mariora Rostas and the lack of disgust and uproar after her gruesome treatment and death under Ireland’s gangland criminals.

I want to complain about the lack of facilities in rural areas of Ireland for both children and adults.

Since the Mahon Tribunal and all others gone before it, there has been no prosecutions or punishments of guilty parties.

I found it ironic to hear Labour Minister Joan Burton over the weekend saying that the basic rules of planning were contravened due to the corruption which permeated the various levels of the process.

If THE obscenely expensive tribunals have proved one thing it is this; McCarthyism is not yet dead! If politicians have been found to have broken the law, try them in a court of law and film the proceeds. A billion euro for tribunals and all for what?

At the start of the month your paper reported that council managers were receiving lump sum payments of €300,000 and an annual pension payment of €75,000 a year upon their retirement in their mid-fifties.