THERE is no doubt in anyone’s mind that our system of Government needs to be reformed. The only way to do that properly is to agree that there are no “sacred cows” from vouched expenses to the existence of the Seanad, from ministerial cars to whether we need five seat constituencies or not.

THE HSE’s preferred health system strategy of reducing acute hospital beds through shortening the average inpatient length of stay can only be achieved through adopting an integrated process-driven approach to continuous improvement.

I WOULD like to respond to the “meat matters” piece in your recent Property supplement in which Friends of the Earth ask people to eat less meat.

YOUR recent editorial (Jan 28) rightly sounds alarm at the escalation in suicide rates in rural areas.

MICHEÁL MARTIN has called for a three-way debate between the leaders of the main political parties.

THE country finds itself in its present perilous and almost insolvent state due in no small part to the manner in which it was governed for too long, by a ruling elite and political class who were ill-equipped, ill-prepared and ill-educated for the task.

WALKING through Cork city on Monday, I fell into step and got speaking for a time to a pleasant, elderly gentleman who was also walking in the same direction as me.