THIS is fast becoming a government of contradictions.

YOUR recent editorial (November 15) was spot-on.

SO, the thorny issue of the handsome salaries paid to RTÈ presenters raises its head yet again.

MICHAEL D: his integrity is his armoury.

I READ that Pat Kenny’s wife, in trying to justify his salary, said that “she had hardly seen him” during the recent presidential election.

MANY Irish people are appalled at the Government’s planned closure of the Irish Embassy to the Holy See.

TODAY the USI will hold a demonstration in protest against any further cuts to student grants, the reintroduction of student fees, and any further increase in the student contribution.

I WISH to contribute my thoughts and opinion on the ongoing dispute about the cost versus value of the (Reserve Defence Forces) RDF.

THE recent advertisement for a project manager with the Samaritans to oversee the introducing of “signposting” within Ireland, illustrates the bureaucratic and centralised direction from Britain of that organisation.

I STRONGLY support the return of university fees for those who can pay them. Even the less well-off should also pay a little. No one must be allowed to sit out the recession at university at taxpayers’ expense.