MICHAEL CLIFFORD’S article (May 30) on Balgaddy contains a number of references to my father, Tom Gilmartin, which are mistaken.

SO, we’ve won the Carling Cup, the Heineken Cup, we’ve had the Queen and President Obama to make us all feel so happy and confident that now we can wait for the tourists to arrive and all will be well.

I HAVE been proven wrong again, just when I thought we were ridding ourselves of gombeen politicians.

YET another wonderful example of the sheer inanity of our bureaucrats is this recent bleating for more women in government.

SOME years ago I persuaded my son, then in his early 30s, to begin putting money into a private pension fund (a PRSA).

IN your report “Child custody applications soared by 44% last year” (May 17), the reporter Noel Baker claimed that “a legal source said the increase was not due to more marriages falling apart in the recession, as divorce and separation statistics have remained consistent.

THE EU/IMF axis has put together an emergency fund of €700bn to lend to Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, collectively know as “the PIGS”.

A LETTER in your newspaper (May 25) described Enda Kenny as a “real” Taoiseach after his speech at College Green during Barack Obama’s visit.