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Your letters, your views.

I wonder if Bertie Ahern availed of the VIP lounge at Dublin Airport, as he jetted off to Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Recently it has been pointed out — the failure of Staff at the Department of Finance to follow established procedures in procurement activities.

While patients wait on trolleys, homeless families compelled to live in hotels, convicted criminals, relaxing in their comfortable cells, watching their various sports channels, are now pampered with additional line items on their varied menus.

Michael A Moriarty's letter to the editor has been one of our more popular stories today so we have reproduced it here for your consideration. 

Here are some of the achievements of John Magufuli president of Tanzania, in his first month in office:

At a recent sitting of a District Court, a judge, told a driver with 31 previous convictions for driving without insurance that he should contact the editor of the Guinness Book of Records to have the offences included.

Michael A Moriarty (Letters, December 12) described the war in Syria as the “conflict” — the use of inverted commas thus intimating that to describe what is happening there as conflict to be arguably inaccurate.

It has been reported (and discussed on air) that one of the country’s most dangerous sex offenders is back on the streets.

It has been reported that some of a group of Syrian and Iraqi refugees refused to leave a bus, in the village of Limedsforsen in Sweden, and move to an asylum centre, due to the “cold”.

The UK government has so far agreed to accept 20,000 refugees with many pressing for the number to be increased to 50,000. 

Recently we have heard reports of elderly persons being attacked and robbed by criminals.

It has been reported in an Irish newspaper that a “refugee” family are demanding to be settled in Germany or they will go back to Syria.

Ireland has many groups very vocal in drawing attention to their specific demands.

On Monday I settled down to watch the TV documentary Recruits.

I never met Dara Murphy.

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa must be turning in his grave at what has become of his beloved country since ‘independence’.

Newspapers report that John Gilligan, in his current challenge to the sale of property in Ireland, has access to three barristers and three junior barristers, all on legal aid, paid for by the Irish taxpayer.

The MacGill Summer School is nothing more than a ‘talking shop’ or junket for ‘has beens’ or ‘wannabes’. It offers nothing constructive to help solve problems of this country.

“Bertie Ahern gave the performance of his life” — so says one reporter having listened to Bertie at the ‘banking inquiry’. So did many others interviewed by the members of the inquiry. They could all be nominated for “Oscars”.

The terrorists/jihadists/fundamentalists identified with so-called Islamic State sank to a new low, a new level of depravity, when, as a training exercise, they booby-trapped a baby, an orphan.

Ancient Greece led the way in the world with democracy.

Mr John-Paul O’Driscoll has listed various world conflict areas as reasons why the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Ban Ki-moon should not have received the Tipperary International Peace Prize (Letters, Irish Examiner, May 26).

In recent days I answered the door bell to one of our TDs

When Ben Dunne opened his first store on St. Patrick Street Cork, he ensured many items, in particular children’s clothing was brought within affordable reach of many people.

While representing this country abroad the IRFU has its own: a) anthem b) flag.

Christmas time is here again. 

Did I imagine the item on RTÉ 6.1 News when Enda Kenny stated: “Ireland is the best country in the world to raise a family” and “Ireland is the best country in the world to grow old”.

The United Nations Security Council, and the five permanent members (US, UK, France, Russia, China), need to be seen to take decisive action in relation to ISIS activities in Iraq.

A member of the Uruguay team described the punishment of teammate Luis Suarez for biting as an "act of barbarity that breaches player’s human rights....".

Concerns have been raised in the recent past in relation to management of An Garda Síochána.

Your editorial (May 13) on the reception afforded to Donald Trump on arrival at Shannon Airport is very much to the point.

Now that the concerns expressed by Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe over the past number of years seem to be finally acknowledged, I would like to commend Michael Clifford and the Irish Examiner for their excellent reporting on this matter from the beginning.