IN an Interview over the weekend Minster Simon Coveney when talking about the new government, said: “We don’t think that it’s fair or equitable that Irish taxpayers should be required to take on all of the debts associated with the mistakes made by Irish banks and by banks who lent money to Irish banks.”

MICHEAL JOB (March 19) seems to think pedestrians have little or no part to play in their own safety and all the “enforcement” should be on the motorist.

ST PATRICK’S DAY has become a bastardised festival to excuse boisterous drunks and lowlife that spend the day in the pub.

JOHN FITZGERALD’S letter on the carbon tax (March 18) was long on rheortic and noble ideals and short on details of how to achieve same.

IN my naivety I thought the no-fly zone meant a space where Libyan aircraft were strictly forbidden to go.

WHY all the huge security effort costing many millions that we don’t have? Admittedly, Good Queen Bess II comes with a lot of historical baggage and Barack Obama comes as the most warmongering ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize but I really don’t think much security will be necessary for either of them.

WITH the forthcoming visit of Queen Elizabeth I wonder if the time is not opportune for the town of Cobh to add its older name Queenstown to the town’s official name.

ON the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq the lessons of two disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been learned.

WE have been informed that coalition forces have attacked targets in Libya to “protect civilians”.