The Garth Brooks concert failure demonstrates an arrogance and contempt of ordinary people by powerful decision makers.

As always, Terry Prone’s articles (Opinion, February 10) are thought-provoking, but, this time, I imagine, not in the way she intended.

The campaign of media and academia to reject the abolish-the-Seanad recommendation replicates the hypocrisy and stupidity of the bankrupting of the country during the Celtic Tiger.

Whatever one’s views on the abolition or retention of the Seanad, or on austerity, the media discussion is enlightening.

Darren O’Keeffe (Letters, Jul 1) takes the Government to task for the inappropriateness of their “doom-and-gloom tactics”.

I listen to people on the media complaining about the mayhem and violence on the streets of Dublin with shootings and knifings a daily concern.

We heard recently that one million people watched the final violent episode of a violent series on TV.

When Philip O’Neill tells us that ‘we are condemned to be hapless victims of a political class’ and that ‘we have had enough of it’, he is just complaining about the human being’s tendency to be corrupted by power (Letters, Apr 5).

In his dissertation ‘Putting a mirror up to Irish society’ Ivan Yates highlights what he sees as some uncomfortable truths (Opinion, Mar 29).

I THOROUGHLY agree with Michael Mernagh in his criticism of the fact that ‘too many fouls’ spoil Gaelic football as a spectacle and fill the hospitals with injured athletes.

THE Achilles heel in the argument against proposals for increasing the number of women candidates comes at the end of Kevin Cooney’s letter (June 30).

IN his article on August 6, Stephen King regaled us with anecdotes about a film “about a psychopathic clown who enjoys knifing people”.