WITH the barrage of cuts, taxes and levies that people are experiencing, the real issue that is created is being overlooked. When one of these Revenue collecting/saving schemes is imposed, it is reported as a percentage of earnings.

IS there any reason Queen Elizabeth II is visiting the English Market in particular?

IT’S a global affair. People everywhere are sick to death of the entanglements of a social system that simply cannot rectify itself.

THE release of the Childline figures demonstrates, once again, that there are endemic, long-term problems within Irish society which reveal an almost cultural lack of empathy, for children, for the vulnerable, and the distressed.

THE provision of broadband may be one of this country’s biggest white elephants.

I HEARD only one voice in the wilderness asking for the extradition of David Drumm from the USA to Ireland so he can be questioned about alleged discrepancies in Anglo Irish Bank when he was in charge.

COULD the State explain the legal basis for the involuntary garda vetting of those unfortunate enough to live on the route that the state has decided to take Queen Elizabeth II along?

TRULY our cup runneth over when we have a president, prime minister and a queen tripping over themselves to follow in the footsteps of a visit by the Dalai Lama.