Barry Walsh, (Letters, Nov 19), reminds us that, “During the 1970s and 1980s, all councillors worked for free and received no salary.

Before the last General Election, Fine Gael and Labour issued a lot of ‘promissory notes’ to the Irish people which promised a pay-back if elected.

HAVING promised not to send its citizens to jail for non-payment of fines, our Government has sent even more this year than last year, for that very reason.

HAVING promised not to send its citizens to jail for non-payment of fines, our Government has sent even more this year than last year, for that very reason.

WHILE the eight road deaths recently in Donegal were appalling, the accompanying hysteria in the national press, as a result, is idiotic.