While there is hardly a day goes by when the HSE doesn’t come in for some media criticism, I should like to remind your readers that on the shop floor, as it were doctors, nurses and ancillary staff are working flat out to deliver the best service possible to their patients.

I WISH to thank you for your chilling parody on the 1916 proclamation (November 19).

WRITING as one of Fergus Finlay’s “people without an education” who emigrated to the UK in the early ‘60s, I found his well-meaning but rather smug column on immigration (Irish Examiner, February 15) lacking in any real understanding of what life was like then, and still is, for many driven by economic circumstances to leave home to seek employment elsewhere.