THE announcement by US President Barack Obama that US forces are pulling out of Afghanistan is another example of a foreign policy that has gone very wrong for this US Government.

IF the scrappage scheme is abandoned at the end of the month it will mean we will have an environmental disaster on our hands.

A FRIEND who is also a Labour supporter is delighted with the restoration of the national minimum wage and, of course, he’s right.

LIKE many Irish people I have relatives buried in France.

MUCH is being made — properly so — of the abuse of human rights of the mothers, children and orphans who were incarcerated in Magdalene homes run by the churches and facilitated by the State.

CIT Economics Lecturer Tom O’Connor believes the IMF/EU deal “should be cast aside”.

I COULDN’T agree more with Anthony Woods when he said that “we can’t afford pomp and grandeur of Presidency” (Letters, June 21).

THE signs are all there pointing to a massive writing-off of global debt, coupled with a resetting of currencies to being asset-backed and the outlawing of the issuance of debt-backed monies to run our world.

STEVEN KING asks “why is the MV Saoirse and its assorted passengers heading for Gaza and not the Syrian coast?”

LABOUR TD Joanna Tuffy (Letters, Jun 22) continues to argue against the proposed gender quota legislation without suggesting any realistic alternative to change the 15%-85% female to male ratio that is currently in place in the Dáil.