THE Green Party is coming under increased pressure to secure a wide range of concessions from Fianna Fáil as negotiations on the revised Programme for Government (PfG) enter the final two days.

IN response to Noel Whelan’s column in which he said that we’d better believe Bertie Ahern when he ruled out a coalition with Sinn Féin (Irish Examiner, November 17):

Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian said today he would not shut the door on eventual unification with China if Beijing expressed goodwill.

I WELCOME Foreign Minister Brian Cowen’s admission (Irish Examiner, October 21) that Ireland is not a neutral country.