Infuriatingly I’ve just noticed on Bookface an advert for the Bank of Ireland advertising a forthcoming visit by said bank to Carlow’s Fairgreen Shopping Centre looking to entice potential customers to borrow money from them.

The recent Prime Time documentary Inside Bungalow 3, aired on December 9 last, has once again demonstrated the plight of people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland.

I write to congratulate Colette Brown (Opinion, Jun 18) on her timely and important article on the treatment of women.

I congratulate you (if that is not presumptuous of me) on the moderation and wisdom of your editorial under the heading “Protests in the North” (Opinion, Jan 7).

I am researching the depiction of Dublin city by visual artists in the period 1920-1950. Artists included in this research are, among others, George Collie (1904-75), Josephine Carson (dates unknown), Harry Kernoff (1900-74) and Estella Solomons (1882-1968).

It is at a minimum the responsibility of a newspaper editor to ensure that the content of the paper he edits provides balance and accuracy.

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with the statement in Maurice Fitzgerald’s offensive letter, “Students should just stick to lectures” (November 22).

ON behalf of the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing I would like to thank the makers of the Behind the Walls documentaries for bringing important issues regarding mental health services in this country to public awareness.

OUR democracy and form of government is based on a system of checks and balances between the Government, the Oireachtas and the judiciary.

A MERE 46,302 spectators for a match against the All Blacks at Lansdowne Road.

PERHAPS this is the time to say I am an admirer of Ireland’s fight for independence and the Irish love of freedom and democracy.

IT is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of the publication of the 1641 Depositions in Trinity College Library, hidden from view (in the best Trinity manner) for well over three centuries.

THE issue of university fees ought not to be determined in isolation from student grants.

AS someone who has been privileged to lecture in Trinity College Dublin for 42 years, I simply fail to recognise Myles Duffy’s description of our system of electing a provost as having “the hallmarks of an elite gentleman’s club” (Letters, October 18).

I NOTE with alarm the suggestion by Seán Kelly MEP (Letters, October 18) that we attempt to solve the problem of university fees by the admission of more foreign students.

I COMMEND Fergus Finlay’s column headlined ‘University chiefs are creaming it off while students fear fee hikes’ (September 21).

WE read a great deal about the need for a new political party in the Republic.

IT is regrettable that Sean Kelly MEP made no reference to alcohol consumption in his letter (July 7) on suicide prevention.

THE lives of many of us, apart from the central protagonists, have been shaped by the terrible events in Derry/Londonderry on January 30, 1972.

LIKE Dr Pat Walsh (Letters, May 12), I too welcome the debate on Gallipoli in the columns of the Irish Examiner.

I STRONGLY agree with Frank O’Brien (Letters, May 15) that the Lansdowne Road stadium should have retained that name given that Irish taxpayers carried most of the cost.

I WAS interested in the letter from Dr Pat Walsh (April 26) on the justification – or lack of it – for the invasion of Gallipoli by the British and French in 1915.

NO one has done more in the past decade or so to give meaning and definition to our continued quest for peace and reconciliation on the island of Ireland than President Mary McAleese in her two terms of office, whether in greeting the English rugby team at Croke Park or Lansdowne Road or in sharing communion with communicants of the Church of Ireland in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.

AS the son of a father who was deaf for most of his life (he died in 1981), I wish to thank and congratulate Tom O’Connor of Blackpool’s Reel Picture cinema in Cork for his introduction of English subtitles for the deaf.

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey pleaded helplessness during last month’s harsh weather. He now worms his way out of the 30km/h morass by leaving the matter to county councils.

THE Abortion Information Act (1995) is conveniently obscure as doctors are not obliged to provide information on abortion services abroad.

IN her letter headlined ‘Irish drink advert codes among strictest in the world’ (September 8), Rosemary Garth of the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland suggests my concerns about Irish children being bombarded withadverts presenting alcohol in a positive light are not based on fact (Letters, August 31). Here are some facts.

I WELCOME Deirdre Carroll’s call for an inspectorate of intellectual disability services (September 4), a call that has been made repeatedly in recent years by advocates for people with intellectual disabilities but which has unfortunately been greeted with repeated inaction on the part of the Government.

ON July 14, you reported calls by Dr Conor Farren that the drinks industry be held to account over the enormous amount of alcohol-related harm in Ireland.

WE have long comforted ourselves with the pleasing thought that, unlike the English, we do not suffer from class prejudice in Ireland.

AMID all the well-deserved congratulations for our magnificent rugby players (and with the prospect of a great day for Leinster and Munster in Croke Park to come) we ought not to overlook the succession of excellent performances by our cricketers culminating in the recent six-wicket victory over Holland, which has assured qualification for the World Cup.

IN her letter (March 7), Jacqueline Cotter says “start the revolution” in the light of ministerial waste, highlighted by a helicopter trip to Kerry costing €8,000.

WE all dislike the fact that the banks have a full Government guarantee. It seems curious that at the same time the HSE thinks the warranty has ran out on our elderly people.

IT is surely time to make the obvious point. Too obvious for words, but not too obvious to our reckless and self-interested political leaders.

I SUPPORT Nick Folley (Letters, December 22) on the mandate of 1918.

I AGREE with Michele Savage (Letters, December 13) that with every rerun of a referendum with the wrong result, we should have a free general election.

YOUR editorial on political correctness is correct (December 6).

I NOTE your front page headline ‘Workplace bullying link to 25% of suicides’ (October 21). How right you are to highlight this important issue.

I NOTE your front page headline ‘Workplace bullying link to 25% of suicides’ (October 21).

I’M with Dominic Carroll (‘President sets the new salary benchmark,’ Letters, October 17). Limit me also to €292,500 per annum.

THE Conservative and Unionist Party has repeated its historic error of 1910 in relation to politics in Ireland.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has shown himself to be a true patriot.

I AGREE with Anthony Leavy (Letters, March 27) that Andrew Bonar Law’s extra-parliamentary opposition to the passage of the Home Rule Act mandated by the electorate of the United Kingdom in the general election of 1910 was an act of treason.