Lucinda Creighton (Irish Examiner, November 7) should be reminded that when the journalist Gavin Sheridan and his colleagues first began the process of requesting copies of the correspondence between Ireland and the European Central Bank (ECB) it wasn’t only the ECB who blocked them every step of the way until the matter was escalated to the European Ombudsman.

1. Embellish and Restore

A MOTHER-OF-TWO who is on a life support machine has finally had her compensation claim with the State settled.

THE State was last night accused of a cruel and calculated delay in settling a claim by a Hepatitis C victim at death’s door.

THERE is a justifiable sense of outrage over Health Minister Micheál Martin’s decision to appeal a High Court verdict allowing hepatitis C victims to take multi-million euro claims against the State.