To dream or not to dream. Because of the recent poor performance of Labour in recent opinion polls, the paid-up members of the Labour party are now saying they do not now know what Labour stands for.

At the start of the month your paper reported that council managers were receiving lump sum payments of €300,000 and an annual pension payment of €75,000 a year upon their retirement in their mid-fifties.

THE question is raised: should Ireland default? Let’s put the question to the people in a referendum.

IN reply to Barry Keane’s question (Letters, October 6) “should we nationalise the banks?” I say we should not.