THE proposal to hit all households with a property charge of €100 per annum in default of which a penalty of €10 for every month the charge goes unpaid which amounts to 120% a year, however inevitable, is a recipe for disaster.

IT has taken 2,000 years for an Irish leader to stand up and tell the vatican where to get off.

THERE would seem to be a growing tendency towards calling for repressive legislation to cure any threat to the established assumptions of our society, but everyone should be conscious that threats to civil liberties come not only from individuals and paramilitants, who arrogate to themselves the right to decide whether a person will live or not.

MY blood is boiling over the proposed law that will ban smoking in a car where minors are present.

IN response to Sean de Paor (Letters, July 26), I would like to point out that Young Fine Gael held its national conference in Charleville, Co Cork, last November, with 500 young people from all over Ireland in attendance.

NO one can help but applaud Enda Kenny’s speech to the Dail stating so clearly the proper position of the Catholic Church in relation to the civic power within our state.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny continues to be lauded in the echo chambers of the media elite for his anti-Vatican tirade.

OUR central banks are all privately owned. We need to really wake up to this farce.

IT has been reported that Finance Minister Michael Noonan rejected calls from the Financial Regulator and senior bankers to lift salaries for executives at rescued banks to more than 500,000 per annum, thus removing the cap on salaries in the banking sector.

MAUREEN O’Hara was born on August 17, 1920. She is an accomplished stage, screen and TV actress.