AS Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore contemplate a referendum on giving our European masters sweeping powers to condemn our nation to austerity budgets for generations to come, they should couple with this referendum a question to the electorate — ie “do you favour the capping of all public service pay at €100,000?”

LAST Wednesday Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy set out, in a letter, their plans for tighter fiscal union.

IT is depressing that, while we all have to work harder to make ends meet, bureaucrats are simply finding more ways to waste our hard-earned taxes.

I FULLY support Independent TD Thomas Pringle’s call on people to support a campaign not to pay this hideous household charge.

THE findings of the Historical Enquiries Team in the North into the murders of three members of the Miami Showband carried out by the UVF in 1975 is a step along the path to justice and closure for those killed and bereaved (Spectre of collusion in Miami Showband killings, December 15).

THE appointment of Kevin Cardiff to EU court of Auditors has shown that there is someone in the Labour Party with courage.

Depression is not a physical entity in the form of a disease.

LEAVING the merits and demerits of the €100 house charge aside for a moment riddle me this: If I can pay road tax directly to the local authority in person or online why can I not do the same with the house charge?

RECENTLY, I have noticed an increasing number of drivers smoking while carrying children as passengers.