THE spat between the Government and the banks over interest rate reductions is all about who “Sean taxpayer” pays, nothing more.

BANKS and social welfare recipients both live on charity. Unlike the thousands of unemployed, a handful of banks are somehow able to evade government control.

THE assertion by T Murphy (Letters, Nov 14) ) that the “eight AGs spooked the (highly) sophisticated Irish electorate into keeping the legal profession rolling in money” by rejecting the Oireachtas inquiry referendum is flawed.

MUCH heat and very little light has been expended on the Government’s decision to close one of our two embassies in Rome (neither of which are in the Vatican).

NOW that the unelected technocrats have been imposed on the populations of Italy and Greece to maintain the hegemony of the market, is the uneasy marriage between capitalism and democracy over?

WE all have read recently about the redundancies in Talk Talk, Aviva and many more.

SO Greece has a new prime minister — Lucas Papademos — and Italy looks to have a new one, too — Mario Monti.

IN the current economic climate, I would expect that Irish Rail would be making every effort to accommodate customers.

THE eight AGs spooked the (highly) sophisticated Irish electorate into keeping the legal profession rolling in money.

THANK you for your coverage of the ongoing saga of the Sacred Heart statue at Killarney Community Hospital.