WITHOUT the agreement of Greece to the programmes supported by the EU and IMF, the conditions for Greek citizens will become much more painful, particularly for the most vulnerable.

I TAKE issue with Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte on the question of the €700m recently paid to speculators who bought unguaranteed bonds at knock down prices and made a killing when the government paid the full face value of the bonds.

CRASH. Bang. Wallop.

THE RTÉ documentary, Crisis: Inside the Cowen Government, contained almost nothing new and appeared to be an attempt by the regurgitated “whiter than white” Fianna Fáil surviving clique, to find one suitable scapegoat for Fianna Fáil’s reckless destruction of the Irish economy, while exonerating most of the other FF ministers from collegial cabinet responsibility.

WATCHING Monday night’s RTÉ programme on the Cowen government reminded me of when,as a young boy, I used to read how the former German generals told us that they were all only following orders.

I WRITE to you to highlight a great injustice imposed on a group of loyal and diligent servants of this state.

In her letter (Nov 4), Louise Patricia Sheridan writes that forced quotas are not the way to go to encourage women into politics; and instead welcomes educational opportunities as a way to increase representation.

IT’S ironic that former US President Bill Clinton was invited recently to speak at an Economic Global Forum at Dublin Castle to advise our citizens and government how to overcome our economic recession.

DANIEL O’Connell is reputed to have said that there is nothing as ignorant as an ignorant Irishman.

IT seems to me that Eamonn Gilmore was giving the electorate a “clip around the ear” for having the audacity to reject the Oireachtas Referendum. His attitude seemed to be, “now that the referendum is rejected there can be no enquiry into banking practices etc.”