ANY inquiry into RTÉ should inspire confidence in its complete independence, with no links between the parties involved.

FR Sean McDonagh (Letters, Dec 3) rightly calls for the media to be held accountable.

I, LIKE many thousands of others, watched An Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s state of the nation address Sunday night.

MARGARET Hickey (Letters, Dec 1) claims the Irish public sector is the “most indulged public service in the EU” and the “most cosseted public sector in Europe and the Western world”.

IN Ireland, the word depression signals alarm bells in people’s minds; they label depressed people as mad, or in some way weak.

SPEAKING of the ordinary citizen, the one liberating element in the Taoiseach’s address to the nation were his words: “You are not responsible for the crisis.”

I AM writing this letter by way of an appeal to the Fine Gael TDs to break their disastrous coalition with the Labour party before it is too late for them and more importantly the country.

YOUR newspaper had four full pages covering the sex scandal in the Catholic Church (December 1), but what about the need to hold an audit on all organisations that have received funds from the State or the Catholic Church over the past six years?

THE vastly differing rates of road tax levied on motorists are based on an flawed interpretation of “environmental responsibility” and are in need of complete re-structuring.

OVER three years after this country was plunged into recession by the incompetence and greed of bankers, developers and senior civil servants, and facilitated by reckless politicians, the knife is out.