WITH all of the negative news in the media, World Vegan Day on November 1 is an example of an ever-increasing group of people who do their utmost to live compassionate lifestyles and to have a light footprint on the earth’s resources.

I HAVE the utmost sympathy for the residents of Priory Hall.

SINCE the collapse of our fiscal stability we have become a very cynical, begrudging society.

FIRST of all, it was driving on a deflated tyre which produced a blow-out that tried to do her in, and now it is the fault of anti-Roman Catholic Church voters who misunderstood her.

I DON’T recall an “updated” pay cap being announced.

NUMEROUSLY in recent times, I have encountered the same pair of children begging in Dublin city.

I AM surprised that you suggest, in your article on Jeremiah Burke’s message-in-the-bottle from the Titanic (October 26), that “it is believed he tossed it into the Irish Sea a few miles off the Irish coast”, and not, as has always been believed, when he realised the ship was sinking.

FOLLOWING a recent radio debate, I find myself asking, is chivalry dying because it is sexist?

NEXT Wednesday our Government must pay €700 million towards the Anglo Irish Bank bailout, for unsecured loans via the bank to speculators.

THE INDEX numbers published by the CSO summarise price rises quite well, but for a measure of austerity, convert them into real money.