I find the €200 charge on second and holiday homes personally unfair. My house is not a second home as it is the only one I own and it is not rented. I bought a house as a first-time buyer only to lose my job nine months later.

SO Melissa O’Neill (Letters, July 10) thinks L-drivers have a hard time. I suggest she take up cycling for a while and then she’ll really know what it means to be second class.

John Kerry’s growing string of wins is persuading party leaders to look for ways to bring the Democratic presidential primary season to a quick close.