The action by the Luas drivers has gone too far with their latest announcement of six strike days.

I just listened to Ray D’Arcy and the interview on dementia and alzheimer’s disease he had with Kathy Ryan — what a brave and lovely person she is.

Has our era of good feelings started... Not! 

I’ve spent the last six months in hospital and I am amazed by the care given to me and other patients. 

I am currently waiting for a heart transplant, can I ask everyone reading this letter to text DONOR to 50050 to get a donor card.

If a third party candidate, such as Mitt Romney, runs in the upcoming United States presidential election and neither Trump or Clinton get a majority (270) of electoral college votes the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will decide who will be the next President.

I was walking past the US Embassy and I began to wonder, what if the unimaginable happens? What if Donald Trump became president of the USA?

It appears that the Titanic will be refloated this Friday!

What’s the difference between the Dublin skyline this year and last year?

During the week, someone failed to cash in their winning Lotto ticket...it could happen to you!

In 1916, Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins were members of the original Sinn Féin.

What are the three main differences between The Hotel California and Tallaght Hospital? 

Kevin Devitte writes of Croagh Patrick (Irish Examiner, Letters, July 30): “It’s for those who seek God in bare feet”.

Regarding the cancelled Croagh Patrick pilgrimage last Sunday. It was correct to cancel but not necessarily right. I can understand the officials who made the decision to cancel… but people by the thousands still went up anyway.

There is excitement throughout the bird world because of a large concert in Ireland for our feathered friends.

Lone parents....alone again!

What do Sepp Blatter and Denis O’Brien have in common?

If Henry Thierry had used two hands instead of one, would the FAI gotten €10 million instead of €5 million from FIFA?

After the recent Irish referenda, may I suggest to the Catholic Church that they should have two referenda. The first should be to let priests marry, or at least to give up celibacy, whether they are straight or gay.

Due to the latest court decision involving a highly visible Irish businessman, I am not able to write a letter to the editor about that person.

If Percy Sledge was alive, do you think he would have changed the words and title to his only number one song to ‘when a man loves a man’?

The new children’s hospital. Where is it? It has been 10 years of promise after promise, with nothing to show, not even a shovel of sod turned.

To quote Brian Goggin at the banking inquiry: “The day and night of September 29 (2008) was the worst day of my life.” I wouldn’t mind having the worst day of my life and still make €17,021.27 for the day.

I was searching on the internet for the name of the young Irish girl killed in Scotland. 

I just heard on the radio that the road from Foxford to Straide was closed. 

Congratulations to golfer Padraig Harrington. 

After reading about the Fair Deal funding problems, the difficulties in getting the Children’s Hospital started and the Aer Lingus for sale problems, I’ve come to the conclusion that, we are not where we are at… we are where we were.

I think it’s great that the United States is starting to thaw relations with the last country from the Cold War, Cuba.