I BELIEVE the “common good” of all should always take priority over local, narrow, selfish interests.

YOUR publication “Let’s Talk Diabetes” is quite informative, but there is no mention of infant nutrition. Research indicates that breastfed children have a lower risk of diabetes, both Type 1 and Type 2.

THE term “paradigm” could have been coined to describe the increasingly obdurate defence by the Coalition of an economic orthodoxy that is collapsing in this country, as well as across the eurozone.

SO, Minister of State for Housing Willie Penrose felt he had no option other than resign from government because of proposals to close Columb Barracks in Mullingar.

OUR politicians should be stopped drawing these vulgar pensions and expenses immediately, and what about the €40k worth of missing prepaid Oireachtas envelopes? It’s a disgrace.

I WAS shocked and disappointed at Simon Coveney’s stance on the public service income on Tonight with Vincent Browne. He said if public servants were capped at €100,000 a year they would leave. Where would they go?

IN 1801, those in political and economic power advocated and agreed the Act of Union, with Britain.

WHAT planet is Terry Prone living on? Does she really believe that in these days “it’s a given that a woman can be president, or anything else she wants to be, including stay-at-home mother”? (Opinion, Nov 14).

IT’S good to see strong support for the fat tax. Medical services should also be denied to those who abuse food, sex, alcohol, drugs and tobacco.