Irish rugby pride was restored with vengeance in the Aviva Stadium last Saturday with a resounding victory over the Italians, who two weeks earlier almost scored a shock victory over England.

Florence Craven (Letters, Feb 24) made a derisory comment about “low-grade Paypal jobs” that are to be created in Ireland over the next few years.

“A treaty like no other” are the words of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.

Alcohol abuse in our society is again becoming a topic for much discussion, mainly around the problem of cheap availability of alcohol and under-age drinking.

Matt Cooper’s suggestion (Opinion, Feb 24)) that making Irish optional for the Leaving Cert would improve the teaching of German is not well-founded.

Speaking at the Government’s latest jobs plan launch, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that we couldn’t have a situation where people were “serially and forever’ drawing benefit that workers were paying for through taxes.

Do you think that the bankers, politicians, developers, RTÉ directors and general toffs who play at the golf course beside Saint Vincent’s at Elm Park in Dublin 4 would give up a few acres for a new children’s hospital?

Having read the Pathways to Work document it is clear to me that it has two clear objectives:

Following the tragic death by drowning of a two-year-old boy on an Athlone ghost estate, there has been reaction from every facet of society.

The infrastructure needed by Irish speakers is about to be destroyed.