I have the free travel.

March 31 should come to be known as “Thick Paddies Day”; as this is the annual date on which we willingly hand over €3bn to foreign casino banks.

I was impressed by Angela Morris (Letters, March 3) on the basis that the household charge is unconstitutional, being in breach of the principles of social justice.

There seems little point in giving priority to closing down the Vatican embassy at the Villa Spada, re-designating these premises as the Embassy to Italy, spending €1m on “refurbishment”, and then handing the whole thing over to the EU.

So many of those who should know better will ask where will we get our future money if we fail to pass this proposed treaty.

In The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis argues that the most effective form of mind control is to get people to do what you want but make them believe that it is what they themselves want.

It would be helpful in the lead-up to the referendum if the Government would explain what steps it intends to take to ensure that we have a reasonable expectation of meeting the fiscal targets.

Is democracy as we have know it one of the first casualties of the European economic crisis?

Former Minister Ó Cuív has now decided to leave his position on the Fianna Fáil frontbench due to his differences with the leader of his party on the proposed Fiscal Treaty referendum.

Can I just say how tiresome I find those letters expressing the view that the Irish embassy to the Vatican should be paid for solely by Catholics?