DOES Gay Byrne not understand that it was the “mad people” in Fianna Fáil, PDs and Greens that did all the damage, not the suits in Brussels?

THERE is a proverb about teaching that says: “A good teacher is like a candle — it consumes itself to light the way for others.”

Gay Byrne is convinced Ireland is being “run by mad people in Brussels”.

THE presidential election appears to be turning into a farce. What a pity. This office has served the country so well in recent years.

IT truly is the silly season when the media fills space by trying to portray Gay Byrne as a suitable and viable candidate to be our country’s first citizen and head of state.

IS there a conspiracy afoot? Could it be media bias? Terry Prone (Opinion, August 8) devotes a whole paragraph to an egregious slur on algebra. “Anything,” she writes, “would be better than algebra.”

DID I actually read that Fianna Fáil will support the nomination of Gay Byrne and that property developer Harry Crosbie would arrange a dig-out to fund his campaign?

I WOULD like to congratulate Jennifer Hough for her excellent coverage of mental health matters in the Irish Examiner.

I WRITE to express my shock and anger at the recent spate of tragic deaths of cyclists on our roads, including the hit-and-run of a 23-year-old in Co Monaghan this week, on the same day that a young female cyclist was killed in Northern Ireland. This followed the tragic death of a young 21-year-old cyclist in Dublin.

FIRST, congratulations to the Irish Examiner’s Jennifer Hough for the excellent special investigation into the topsy-turvy world of mental health treatment in Ireland.