I BELIEVE the rent our Government is paying Treasury Holdings for the new Convention Centre is of the order of about €25m per annum for the next 20 years — that’s €500m.

YOUR report (News, Sept 12) about the laissez-fare attitude of the HSE with state funds can hardly come as a surprise to anyone at this stage.

HOW refreshing to see that one of our property developers is threatening to welch on his debts and leave Ireland.

SENATOR David Norris apparently left Ireland on a prolonged vacation the day after he threw in the towel on his presidential election aspirations in early August because he recognised he did not have the necessary credentials to become President.

FOR many months after the 2008 crisis and then before the last election, we heard many different commentators talk about the unfairness of the upward rent reviews.

THROWING tantrums is an epidemic in Fine Gael.

THERE is a great weakness in any political system: “government” is based on the idea that some individual or organisation is awarded more power than any human being should possess — the power to kill, to declare war, to steal, to defraud, to counterfeit, etc.

I WISH to clear up a few matters for A. Moriarty (Letters, Sept 10) regarding running on the road.

ON returning to Cork after several years’ absence I was horrified at what has been done to the Grand Parade and to St Patrick St.

THE news that the Government is actively considering selling its stake in Aer Lingus is a cause for grave concern.