WE are asking Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, to reverse the party’s stated policy of making Irish an optional subject at Leaving Certificate level.

THE fact that we are where we are may not be entirely due to the unseemly behaviour of the spineless scoundrels whose function it was to govern this country or in the clandestine activities that have brought the country to its knees.

IN a recent editorial (Jan 28) you rightly highlight the need for community action against suicide.

THANK you for highlighting a social crisis among the elderly who live in rural Ireland.

THE concerns expressed by the coroner for Kerry South, Terence Casey, about suicide among older people are shared by Age Action.

LINKING the tragic deaths in rural Ireland of older people by suicide to a “new puritanism surrounding even the most restrained cases of drinking and driving” (Jan 28) is astonishing in its over simplicity.

I HAVE recently come across a matter of curiosity about an Irishman buried at a cemetery in Vittoriosa (Malta).

FIANNA FÁIL is talking about creating 1,000 jobs a week over the next five years.

LABOUR states it will not increase income taxes on earnings of less than €100,000 and will instead extend the 10% USC rate to include all income over €100,000 (raising €106m).

THERE is increasing evidence that the self-employed citizens of Ireland are being discriminated against.