CAN it be a coincidence that the €3.5 billion which the government now tells us it overestimated the national debt by last year is so close to the figure due to be taken out of the economy in the coming budget?

MICHAEL D HIGGINS’s win has been yet another endorsement for our Irish language.

FOLLOWING the rejection of the referendum on Dáil investigations, it strikes me that a lot more than bankers, ex-attorneys general and politicians were scared witless about being called to account for their actions, however unlikely that event might be.

THE latest attempt by the leader of the Labour Party to re-run the failed referendum on giving more powers to the houses of parliament of the 26 Counties is yet another attempt to subvert the democratic will of the people.

ALL these unsecured unguaranteed bondholders, whoever they are, must be overwhelmed by the unbounded generosity of a foolish and submissive Irish Cabinet for getting their gambling money returned to them, possibly with interest, while in many cases the life’s savings of trusting citizens in irish banks are gone forever.

THE Government has just found €3.6 billion that they did not know they owed.

DURING the course of the election campaign I received 13 Litir um Thoghchán from various presidential and by-election candidates.

FIANNA Fáil’s Michael McGrath TD has called on the Government not to pay the €715 million bill to Anglo bondholders.

IN Mr Justice Sean Ryan’s address in Cork about the ‘Protection of Children Post-Ryan Report’, he talks about “knowledge of abuse”. We have such knowledge of abuse again, this time in relation to HSE childcare.

THERE can be only one reason why Terry Prone wrote a piece explaining what the media did during the presidential election, and that is she knows that the ‘fourth estate’ did not cover itself in glory.