FINE GAEL is yet again excusing its failures by seeking refuge in the difficulties posed by a “challenging situation”, hence their inability to create jobs.

THE revelation by Finance Minister Michael Noonan that the public interest directors on the boards of the banks do not report to the Government, is as sickening as it is unsurprising.

AS a Leaving Certificate student who has applied for medicine, I deem it necessary to draw attention to the current situation affecting medicine applicants.

AGE ACTION believes the ESB Electric Ireland’s insistence on customers actively requesting that they be put on the new lower rates potentially excludes frail older people as well as those people with disabilities.

I REFER to the article that carries Dr McClean of the Brothers of Charity’s opinion on Knockamann, Portrane, in the Irish Examiner (April 18).

REGARDING Fergus Finlay’s article, “Yes we should celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden” (Opinion, May 3), please permit me to make the following observations:

WHERE did Matt Cooper (Opinion, April 29) visit? If his sample was DisneyWorld, his conclusions are equally fantastical.

I AM appalled that one of our presidential hopefuls is celebrating the West’s latest extra-judicial killing.

IT IS an horrific day for humanity when the president of the “free world”, along with his trusted advisors, is happy to be filmed watching a real-time “snuff movie”.