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Letter to Editor: River Lee an overlooked transport option

With an ambitious new €3.5bn transport plan unveiled for the expanded metropolitan area of Cork, I am surprised to see the obvious overlooked.

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Minority government is a democratic success

Technology is great, but we need a paper trail

The game of brinkmanship being played out in Syria could affect us all

Mass shootings won’t stop until the US addresses its ‘culture of death’

Burden of bank bailout at odds with 1916 ideals

When the banking catastrophe crashed upon the shores of Ireland, our Government nationalised the banks. We hear lately that they want to privatise those same banks again. The people of Ireland now rightly own the banks, although you would never think so.

Mon, 21 Sep, 2015

US beheaded prisoners in Vietnam

Much has been made in the media and by western leaders – most recently taoiseach Enda Kenny - of the so-called Islamic States’ unpleasant habit of beheading prisoners and destroying ancient monuments.

Fri, 11 Sep, 2015

Little Nellie story illustrates God is greatest in apparent weakness

I am normally a fan of Victoria White’s excellent and perceptive column. But her article on Nellie Organ (Irish Examiner, 27 August) displays a profound lack of insight into the central mysteries of Christianity, whether of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant variety.

Mon, 31 Aug, 2015

Bankers wear shame as a badge of honour

Of all the proposals to ‘force’ banks to reduce punitive variable interest rates, the most comically laughable is the proposal to ‘name and shame’.

Wed, 08 Jul, 2015

Finlay’s definition of marriage defies logic

Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, May 5) claims marriage is not being re-defined but merely ‘extended in definition’.

Sat, 09 May, 2015

Flawed assumptions about Christmas

It’s that time of year again when the old canards about ‘Christians hijacking a pagan festival’ or ‘Christ’s exact date of birth isn’t known are wheeled out ( Letters December 13th).

Fri, 19 Dec, 2014

Water charges U-turn drives protestors on

It is sad when good, decent people have to resort to violence to have their human rights acknowledged. It was only when the barracks were blown out and the Tans ambushed that the British army left the country.

Mon, 01 Dec, 2014

Ebola an ‘airborne’ bug

Having read the facts about the Ebola ‘joke’ on the plane, now I see why passengers do not hand rubbish to flight attendants, but leave it under the seat.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2014

TED talks triumph for Clon

I was one of the lucky people who spent a magical day at TEDx in Clonakilty on Saturday, an event brilliantly organised by Lisa Brinkmann and her team. 

Sat, 01 Nov, 2014

Would PETA try a cat for the murder of a mouse?

Animal rights organisation PETA’s latest campaign, showing a human leg served up with vegetables, is proof that they have lost the run of themselves.

Tue, 12 Aug, 2014

Antipathy towards single mothers evident

The story of the babies’ cemetery in Tuam has revealed a rather schizophrenic streak within Irish society.

Thu, 19 Jun, 2014

Maths has many pluses

Brendan Casserly (Letters, May 6) sees no reason why honours maths should merit extra points. I disagree.

Wed, 14 May, 2014

‘Functioning planning‘ not evident during Celtic Tiger

I refer to yesterday’s press release from the SEAI, and the assertion by its chief operations officer, Dr Brian Motherway, that “we have a transparent and functioning planning process, which has proven itself capable, time and again, of making objective decisions”.

Sat, 22 Feb, 2014

Reviving old memories

I have a dim memory of an old TV movie from 1980 called Ohms.

Wed, 05 Feb, 2014

Unequal burden

Reports say that about 240,000 children under six years old will get free doctors’ care by the end of 2014.

Tue, 28 Jan, 2014

Time to write off all those ‘missing’ punts

Twelve years ago, Ireland changed over from the punt to the euro. Today, the Central Bank continues to exchange old punts for euro (at face value).

Mon, 13 Jan, 2014

Poor attitude to Irish

Several letters appeared recently in the Irish Examiner about the Irish language. Some referred to the rights of citizens to use Irish when dealing with government offices.

Mon, 30 Dec, 2013

Performance pay please

Excessive salaries in the public sector in a time of austerity, are they justifiable, what is the worth of a man?

Sat, 07 Dec, 2013

The day a united Ireland took on soccer’s best

Des MacHale is right (Letters, Nov 18). A single team could represent Ireland North and South in soccer.

Mon, 25 Nov, 2013

Correct statistics are vital for aid decisions

Every so often, letters appear in the papers about the Irish Government’s contributions to overseas aid.

Tue, 19 Nov, 2013

A ‘GUBU’ budget

On budget day, I watched, with growing disgust, our politicians in their expensive business suits, as they sat on their luxuriously upholstered thrones meekly doing the bidding of their Troika masters.

Wed, 23 Oct, 2013

Be wary of totalitarianism

The word on the street is the Seanad costs the Exchequer €20 million a year.

Sat, 14 Sep, 2013

Year of The Blathering

This year is the year of The Gathering. It has been a spectacular success so far.

Thu, 05 Sep, 2013

Still waiting for action on diocese boundaries

There are 26 Catholic dioceses covering the island of Ireland. They cater for 4.3 million members. At present, 26 bishops, one coadjutor and four auxiliary bishops are in charge.

Mon, 29 Jul, 2013

Time to scrap Irish exam bias

It emerged this week that pupils attending private schools and those opting to take the Leaving Certificate through Irish were in the two highest categories that progressed to third-level education directly.

Fri, 10 May, 2013

The danger is not spiked drink, it’s drunkenness

Your report on spiked drinks (Irish Examiner, Mar 22) mentions two plausible studies that suggest it is much rarer than we have been led to believe.

Wed, 27 Mar, 2013

Catholics go to Mass to worship God

Jacob Goode (Letters, Mar 5) asks why, despite a ‘controlling and abusive’ institutional Church, people don’t ‘wake up’ and stop going to Mass?

Wed, 13 Mar, 2013

Pragmatic action on mortgage debt needed

On Mar 7, the Central Bank published the latest statistics on residential mortgage arrears.

Tue, 12 Mar, 2013

So much for ‘less quangos’ vow

In 1999 the Irish people passed the 20th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, the purpose of which was to recognise the constitutional importance of local democracy in the form of local councils and& local government.

Wed, 13 Feb, 2013

Fr Flannery can’t have it every way

Fr Flannery does his order or himself no service with his continued sniping and railing against the Church rules and dogma that he accepted when he joined the priesthood.

Mon, 04 Feb, 2013

Numbers of soldiers should rise in line with numbers of gardaí

On Nov 21, the Garda Commissioner told the Oireachtas Justice Committee that there are 13,500 members in the force.

Thu, 29 Nov, 2012

No manipulation of due process

I welcome the revised outline plan to develop a new Children’s Hospital. They undoubtedly need it, but we need to learn from recent history and sound a note of caution.

Mon, 12 Nov, 2012

Rites of passage for hospital admissions

Did I hear they are going to rename St James’ Hospital the Dr James Memorial Hospital?

Sat, 03 Nov, 2012

Tax lottery jackpots

On average, the National Lottery pays out €1 million every day in prize money.

Fri, 12 Oct, 2012

Turning out the lights on Irish consumers

On Sept 1, a faceless EU directive finally pulled the switch on the old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs.

Tue, 04 Sep, 2012

Silence on septic tank controversy

The septic tank controversy seems to have slipped off the political radar.

Thu, 30 Aug, 2012

Fighting the scourge of smoking addiciton

Recently, proposals were in the news about increasing the price of 20 cigarettes from just under €9 to €15 over the next six years.

Thu, 19 Jul, 2012

Tunnel vision over FF financial soundbytes

Recent soundbytes by Fianna Fáil regarding the Government’s insolvency bill and how it needs to “provide light at the end of a dark tunnel” would do well to remember where that tunnel originates.

Sat, 07 Jul, 2012

Ailing Greece deserves our support

I was embarrassed by our finance minister’s recent glib and disparaging put-down of our Greek cousins.

Mon, 28 May, 2012

Labour stances do party no favours

At its recent conference Labour announced it would not be re-opening the Vatican embassy until such time as ‘the Vatican fully co-operated with this State in investigating cases of child abuse’.

Wed, 25 Apr, 2012

State the obvious

ON Apr 12, the Irish Examiner reported that the National Roads Authority is to spend €1m to upgrade the dual carriageway between the Jack Lynch Tunnel and Ballincollig.

Tue, 24 Apr, 2012

Universal meaning

Do fundamentalist Catholics know the meaning of the word “Catholic”? It means “universal”.

Mon, 23 Apr, 2012

Civil service system is deficient

Your editorial (Apr 12) highlighted the deficiencies in the Performance Management Development System (PMDS) used in the civil service.

Mon, 16 Apr, 2012

Reading report fitting punishment for guilty

We could always rely upon Winston Churchill for a good quote.

Mon, 26 Mar, 2012