AVIVA is cutting its costs for sound business reasons. Other companies will follow suit for the same reasons.

IT seems that as a nation we have failed to heed the €85 billion lesson from the so-called bailout.

WE will be voting on two referendums on October 27.

AMIDST the many tragedies that you report on a daily basis, your reported piece “Council bans livestock from cable car” (Oct 18) could easily be lost in its totality.

PARISH priests in the Cork and Ross diocese have introduced two new quarterly collections to meet a deficit in their finances.

WITH reference to the possible sale of the Government’s stake in Aer Lingus to the Emirati airline Etihad please consider the following: Will the deficit in the pension scheme be addressed as part of any deal?

WATCHING the debate in the Dáil on Tuesday evening on mortgages and debts, I was pleased to see that there is co-operation on this serious issue and less than normal party politics at play.

YOUR thought-provoking article on reformed US executioners (Forum, October 15) prompts the question: Why did they not opt out of the evil process just as conscientious objectors to war do?

THERE is a first time for everything, and that is exactly what happened to me in recent days. These sort of firsts are normally happy childhood events that will stay tucked away in the far recesses of your memory until such time as they are recalled for some reason or another.

I WOULD like to add my voice to Riona Dunlea (Letters, Oct 18). As one who was given false unscientific labels I know they cause harm and discrimination.