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Car tax payment system not fair on less well-off

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Car tax payment system not fair on less well-off

The tax disc for a 1600cc car (registered before July 2008) costs €544 for a full year, €301 for six months (which would come to €602 for a full year), and €153 for three months (which would come to €612 for a full year).

Where has Brian gone?

Just the menu

Bottom of the pile

State of indecision

Liquid solution

SF stance on Gaza

INTERESTING to read Jonathan Baum’s annoyance at Sinn Féin’s vocal condemnation of Israeli war crimes in Gaza (Letters, January 20).

Mon, 26 Jan, 2009

Bombers then and now

THE spectre of members of Sinn Féin queuing up last week to express their outrage at the bombing of innocent civilians is just too nauseating.

Tue, 20 Jan, 2009

Unfair exchange

SO the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Eibhlín Byrne, wants us to show some “civic patriotism” and do our Christmas shopping in the city centre.

Wed, 19 Nov, 2008

Language lessons vital for immigrant students

AT the age of 11, I went with my family to live in Israel.

Mon, 01 Sep, 2008

BUPA: Harney fails to follow her own advice

IT wasn’t very long ago that Mary Harney was telling us to shop around.

Sat, 16 Dec, 2006

Nothing new

THE train drivers went on strike because they didn’t want to drive new trains.

Thu, 18 May, 2006

Why Jesus would have been baffled by Mass row

OH no! Here we go again.

Tue, 09 May, 2006

What of Jewish caricatures in the Arab press?

ALMOST every day, virulently anti-semitic cartoons appear in the Arab press portraying Jews as dogs or pigs (which are lower than dirt in the Muslim outlook), or as serpents with a stranglehold over international finance or the media.

Mon, 13 Feb, 2006

Eircom needs to make a faster connection

IN the course of my work as a Japanese translator, I stumbled across an interesting market research survey of the readers of a certain Japanese magazine.

Sat, 12 Nov, 2005

Russian children not the first young victims

WITH regard to your editorial about the Russian school siege (Irish Examiner, Sept 2), while I agree that this kind of action is indeed vile, I would like to point out that it is most definitely not new.

Sat, 04 Sep, 2004

Look abroad when shopping around

AFTER much research, I finally bought a digital camera. The model here ranged from €240-€280.

Mon, 23 Feb, 2004

Ill winds doth blow

THE other night, I had the misfortune to spend some time in a pub. For the first hour, the air pollution levels were tolerable, but then somebody lit up a cigar.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2003

Bomber astronaut did the world a favour

CONTRARY to what JA Barnwell claimed in his letter (Irish Examiner, Feb 13), the Israeli astronaut who died on the shuttle Columbia did not bomb Baghdad in 1981: he bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor which the French were so kindly building for Saddam Hussein.

Sat, 15 Feb, 2003