NOW that the Catholic Church has been totally discredited, surely it’s time to ask why the Angelus is still being broadcast by RTÉ.

PLEASE keep so-called real ale and British-style pubs out of Ireland.

THERE’S only one slogan the Yes camp in the Lisbon referendum need to use: ‘Say Yes or it’s the IMF!’

GOD help us when swine flu arrives in full force.

IN his letter (April 28), Peadar O Laoire could not be more wrong in his contention that “the real reason for dropping electronic voting was that it took the “fun” out of elections”.

BERTIE AHERN was right.

IN the search for cutbacks, the Government could take a closer look at the funding of fee-paying schools.

IN his letter (October 1), Peadar Ó Laoire complains that the Drugs Payment Scheme monthly maximum fee may rise to €105 in the upcoming budget and contrasts this with the situation in the North where the prescription fee is to be scrapped.

HINTS have been dropped to the media that the Government plans to add up to €15 a month to the already onerous Drugs Payment Scheme (monthly cost €90) in the budget.

THE recent trip to Lourdes by 500 members of the Defence Forces, plus President McAleese, for a Catholic celebration passed with little comment.

I HAVE a simple solution to our health service crisis — just retrain the army of bureaucrats in the HSE as doctors, nurses and hospital orderlies.

I WAS the only passenger on a Bus Éireann bus yesterday, which was a day off for most people in lieu of St Patrick’s Day.

WOULD the Leas Cross scandal have featured on RTE’s main news if the nursing home happened to be in Cork?

FOLLOWING Mary O’Rourke’s praise for our hard-working black immigrants, perhaps they will now be allowed to stay in this country.

BACK in the 1970s, when I came back to live here after a spell in England, the Irish clergy were highly respected. This was in sharp contrast to England where Anglican vicars were the butt of comedians’ jokes.

SO, Bus Éireann in Cork is to get yet another new bus station (Irish Examiner, June 8).

MARY HARNEY’S performance as Health Minister has, so far, been very poor.

I SUPPOSE the 21st century’s reaction to the Holocaust, if it happened now, would be to rattle a few collection boxes, get some pop stars to sing a song and the UN to make some half-hearted disapproving comments about the Nazis.

IN the 1970s we looked to the future and thought we’d all be able to go the moon.