Now that the Scottish independence referendum has been put to bed, the United States is looking after ebola and ISIS, and the Dail has returned after its much-deserved, long summer break, we must not forget that the real problem of the modern age has not gone away.

It is time the Scots broke loose from the London bean-counters.

Mount Carmel is here on a plate — tried, tested, staffed and urgently needed to help our stressed health system.

I BET many of your readers do not know that Government ministers have the “Gospel of Luke” as their bedtime reading.

THE question of who or what caused our present recession is hotly debated.

I AM surprised Ted O’Keeffe only realised only last Sunday that “physical taunting” is going “too far” in Gaelic football (Letters, August 6).

TO whom does one apply for compensation for having to live in Dublin without getting any expenses for having to travel from and to capital — unlike those coming from beyond the Pale?

IS there not something curious about the way in which the driving licence law was introduced? It was rushed in to operate with only a few days’ notice.

Neans McSweeney