RYANAIR may like to call its credit/debit card charge of €10 per passenger per return flight optional (Letters, October 30), but it knows full well that the Visa Electron card, which it trumpets as giving an exemption from the fee, is not issued in Ireland.

MANY of the arguments against the Lisbon treaty are based on the EU being undemocratic and concerns that the treaty would increase this democratic deficit.

I COMMEND Justice Minister Brian Lenihan for his actions in arranging the removal from Ireland of the illegal immigrants camped at the M50 junction in Ballymun, Dublin.