IT IS something of a mystery to me that certain media outlets can repeatedly comment on the Croke Park agreement without mentioning that enormous savings have been achieved by this deal or noting the fact that all reports show that progress thus far is well ahead of expected targets.

I’M calling on everyone to support the Vita Cortex protest outside the Dáil on Thursday, January 12, at 1pm, which has been organised by SIPTU’s manufacturing division.

HAVE our standards dropped so low in the current state of our country that we are willing to compromise even the most basic usage of our native language?

IT IS both audacious and incorrect for the IDA and the HEA to say that “more jobs would be filled if more graduates had the right skills”.

I AM in receipt of a small but, significant, amount of rental income which I must declare to the Revenue Commissioners.

THE way our economy is being managed through savage unfair cuts in provision, with more to come, leaves a strong sense that the country experiences not government by the people for the people, but government by the government for the government.

SHANNON Airport executive Declan Power continues to scapegoat Ryanair for the passenger collapse experienced by the DAA monopoly run Shannon Airport.

THE ongoing sanctions in Iran are leading to nowhere.

BRITAIN is considering bringing in negligence laws on bankers so they could be jailed for wrecking an economy.

WELL done to Colette Browne (Opinion, Jan 3) for her brilliant analysis of what lies behind the campaign of vilification being run by the government against those in receipt of welfare.