Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views.

The new Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has called for vested interests in the health system to put aside their egos so that problems can be tackled.

Given Orla O’Neill (Letter Irish Examiner, April 11), puts such great store in what Amnesty International has to say, it is reasonable that she also pays attention to what it has to say about the Palestinians whose delusions she panders to.

Fine Gael and Labour were given a mandate to radically reform the way Ireland is governed from top to bottom but they didn’t try to live up to the mandate they received.

Yet again Enda Kenny stood up and read a speech someone else had written for him about abuse.

Alison O’Connor (Irish Examiner, Jan 8) tells how the cuddly Greens make a nice, harmless, side salad political option, but do they?

Desmond FitzGerald (Letters, November 2) presents a grossly misleading view of Israeli and Palestinian society.

While people like Zoe Lawlor (Irish Examiner, Letters, October 29) are busy deflecting attention away from the failings of Palestinian society and blaming Israel, I wonder why she has nothing to say about the Palestinian state that would come about if people like her get their way.

The demonisation of the Palestinian people by Desmond Fitzgerald continues unabated (Letters, October 8).

I take grave objection to the description of the Palestinian people put forward by Desmond Fitzgerald (Letters, October 2).

On October 1, Rabbi Eiran and his Naama, who were in their 30s, were travelling between the West Bank Jewish settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh with their four children when they were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

A number of dubious claims were made by Desmond Fitzgerald in an attempt to bypass international law (Letters, October 2).

Jack O’Neill (Irish Examiner, September 26) displays an ignorance of factual history.

Here we go again re a rake of reannouncements. 

Isn’t karma a funny thing? For the last few years the people of Greece have had to endure insufferably patronising moral lectures from Germany about how dysfunctional Greece is and if only it was more like Germany, life for Greeks would be so much better.

Mr Noonan has long since paid off any mortgage on his family home and has never had to pay the mortgage on his Dublin home as the Irish taxpayer has (repeatedly) paid for that capital asset, as they have done for the likes of Mr Kenny, Mr Martin, Mr Adams and others.

Re Kevin Mc Carthy’s letter ( September 5), as it happens the borough where I live in London (Tower Hamlets) is one of the poorest and richest in the country as it contains Canary Wharf and a swathe of deprived social housing estates.

Desmond Fitzgerald is hypocritical for criticising those of us who advocate a generous national response to the humanitarian tragedy in the Mediterranean ( Letters, September 3).

“ I’m sorry, but sometimes you have to be blunt to get the message through.”

Of course there should be a humanitarian response to the migrant crisis but there needs to be more long term thought about the consequences of those naïve fools who call for the gates of Europe to be opened. 

Poor Ireland, whatever you think about past generations they at least had their leaders of stature.

The political class in the UK and Republic, who do not have to live with the criminality of the nationalist and loyalist terrorists, refuse to face the reality that SF/IRA never went away.

With his last letter, Desmond Fitzgerald questions the intellectual vigour of our Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.

Desmond Fitzgerald (Irish Examiner Letters July 3)) tells us that he took a risk on Enda Kenny at the last election despite Mr Kenny’s “lack of intellectual vigour”.

Just a word of warning to any emigrant, with a sliver of hope to return and make their life in Ireland, who thinks the worst is over and things have changed.