Person: Vincent J Lavery

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US election needs more coverage than Trumpwatching

Every major media outlet in this country is copying the major media outlets of the United States and spending an inordinate amount of time and coverage on the Donald Trump campaign for president of the US. Why?

Time we went back on the gold standard

Numbers of Irish charities no surprise

We call them ‘freedom fighters’ in the Middle East and ‘terrorists’ here

Failing to follow Gandhi and King

TO those TDs who publicly have stated they will not pay the €100 household charge and are calling on other citizens to do likewise, I say they are a disgrace to our democratic process and to their own constituents.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2011

Audit abuse funds

YOUR newspaper had four full pages covering the sex scandal in the Catholic Church (December 1), but what about the need to hold an audit on all organisations that have received funds from the State or the Catholic Church over the past six years?

Mon, 05 Dec, 2011

Exposing extremism to the light of day

THE committee of the Philosophical Society at Trinity College is to be congratulated for its invitation to the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, to participate in the debate on the 20th October, 2011.

Sat, 01 Oct, 2011

Return to gold standard

SPACE does not permit me to respond adequately to Ivan Yates (Opinion, August 25), but from my perspective, for the dollar, the pound and the euro to “survive”, it will be necessary for all Western nations to return to the gold standard.

Mon, 29 Aug, 2011

Quango quagmire

YOUR correspondent Conor Ryan should get the award for the best researched and timely article so far this year.

Wed, 18 May, 2011

No one has ever died from smoking marijuana

THE recent march in Cork to legalise cannabis for medical purposes was well-attended and covered by the mass media.

Mon, 16 May, 2011

Parents must play vital role in education

I AM convinced that none of the teachers’ unions in Ireland have a creative idea on how to improve primary and secondary education in Ireland.

Mon, 02 May, 2011

Stop silly seals ban

AS has been my custom for several years I take large numbers of tourists to visit Howth Harbour and cliffs.

Wed, 20 Apr, 2011

They are murderers

THOSE responsible for the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr are not dissidents, nationalists, patriots, unionists, freedom fighters, or any other romantic name we wish to give them.

Mon, 11 Apr, 2011

They’ll be back

PLEASE permit me to make a few forecasts.

Mon, 14 Mar, 2011

We have a right to know about abuse funds

YOUR newspaper is to be congratulated for being the only major media outlet in the nation to cover the funding of groups which have received funding for institutional abuse.

Fri, 17 Dec, 2010

Drugs contagion is spreading: what’s new?

SO those attending what you call “a major drug conference” in Dublin were told gang warfare would “spread over the country” (October 20).

Tue, 02 Nov, 2010

Shaw and the Kennedys – a quote in context

PLEASE allow me to put into correct order the use of the George Bernard Shaw quote by the three Kennedy brothers as commented on by Ryan Tubridy and your columnist Ryle Dwyer (October 27).

Sat, 30 Oct, 2010

Invest in private sector and cut work hours

I WISH to outline a few suggestion to improve our economic situation.

Mon, 04 Oct, 2010

Wrong approach

ROBERT Sharpe (Letters, September 13) is correct when he states it is prohibition that has created the worldwide failure to stop the use of illegal drugs.

Thu, 16 Sep, 2010

Peace has no chance against propaganda of death

THERE will never be peace in the Middle East – and I mean never – until such time as Israeli and Palestinian extremists stop calling each other names and continue to make propaganda points out of violent death and destruction. Simplistic statement? Absolutely – but true.

Thu, 03 Jun, 2010

Called to account

ALL organisations that have received monies from the state or religious bodies in relation to the child sex scandals should give a public accounting of how much they received, why they received it, and how these funds have been dispersed?

Tue, 01 Jun, 2010

Marie’s true motives

I WAS shocked by Vincent J Lavery’s criticism of Marie Collins (Letters, December 7). His reference to “those people who claim to have been sexually abused” is grossly insensitive.

Wed, 16 Dec, 2009

Report ‘smeared all the religious in Dublin’

YOUR front page headline quoting Marie Collins, ‘Nothing has changed’ since the release of the 720-page Murphy report is ridiculous beyond belief (December 2).

Mon, 07 Dec, 2009

Clouding the facts

IN response to the letter (October 29) on the Magdalene homes from the Women’s History Association (WHA), let me say that while it is true the conditions most of these young women worked under were deplorable by today’s standards, it still must be remembered the times in which these events took place.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2009

Liberator’s descendants left out in the cold

COULD someone please explain to me why the closest living relatives of Daniel O’Connell were not invited to the opening of his refurbished crypt at Glasnevin on October 21.

Thu, 29 Oct, 2009

Salvage mission

TO which office in the Dáil and to which media executive does John O’Donoghue go to get back his good reputation and assassinated character?

Thu, 15 Oct, 2009

Still asking

I AM still waiting for Declan Ganley’s answer to a relatively simple question: did Libertas receive funding from US military interests to help fund his ‘No to Lisbon’ campaign in 2008?

Mon, 21 Sep, 2009

The determination of one person can still make a big difference

RECENTLY in this column, I wrote about the stupidity and futility of spending millions on a drug strategy that has failed so miserably elsewhere, not just over years, but over decades.

Sat, 15 Aug, 2009

Drugs war a lost cause

YOUR front page report headlined ‘War on drugs is not working, says EU commission’ (August 4) was insulting to the intelligence of any reader who knows anything about illegal drugs throughout the world.

Mon, 10 Aug, 2009

Judgment withheld

YOUR front page lead story headline (July 20) read ‘373 girls of school going age raped in one year’.

Tue, 28 Jul, 2009

Rewrite constitution

HAVING read the Irish constitution recently I am convinced there is a need for a national assembly to be drawn up and given the brief to rewrite major parts of it.

Thu, 04 Jun, 2009

Libertas funding: question still unanswered

IN his letter (May 18), Nick Folley states “wherever he (Declan Ganley) got the money (to finance the no vote on the Lisbon Treaty) I am happy there was someone – anyone – able to challenge the steamroller being used to bully us into signing this lengthy and complex document”.

Mon, 01 Jun, 2009

Work less, play more

ON May 1, 1886, more than 100,000 people marched in Chicago in support of the eight-hour work day.

Wed, 06 May, 2009

Ganley should come clean on Lisbon funds

THANKS for your report on Declan Ganley’s funding of his opposition to the Lisbon treaty (September 18).

Mon, 29 Sep, 2008