IT seems like a certainty that Fine Gael and Labour will form the next government, with each securing its best ever result giving it the largest majority any Irish government has ever had.

I’VE been listening to the Joe Duffy show recently regarding the young people having to leave Ireland to look for work. The stories are heart rending and I hope these politicians and bankers who destroyed my country are listening.

YOUR editorial (Feb 21) on “The future of Irish” tells it like it is.

FORCING students to “study” Irish up to Leaving Cert level is unfair and does little to revive the language in so far as the majority of the students are involved.

IF Enda Kenny can do for the country what he has done for the Fine Gael party, he deserves to lead a single-party government.

I MUST write to express my outrage at the “Punch and Judy Show” antics of our political parties which is leaving us, the public, so muddled as to whether any party has a solid policy on the important issues and whose policy is whose?

AS a resident of Youghal, it saddens me greatly to see the state the town has got into due to the negligence and wilful neglect of successive Fianna Fáil governments down through the years.

IN the professional aviation world, it is a widely held view that following any type of serious crash the passengers must evacuate the aircraft within 90 seconds.