Place: Blackrock Cork

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Tax cuts for rich to encourage job creation is farce foisted on societies

With the publication of the Panama papers we are reminded once again of the contrast between the lives of a rich elite and the rest of humanity.

We are God’s creation from Adam and Eve, not Adam and Evan

Labour party needs to reject right-wing politics

Parking fines fall as fewer people shopping

Banning wild animals in circuses

Cleaning up

Party’s prospects put before national interest

THE publication of the two reports on the causes of the economic crash do not make for surprising reading.

Fri, 11 Jun, 2010

Attack on Pope was the ‘truth in reverse’

IT’S a great pity that you chose to reprint (April 28) Christopher Hitchens’s ridiculous defamation of Pope Benedict XVI in which he presents a preposterous argument for charging the pontiff with involvement in organised crime.

Thu, 06 May, 2010

Neoliberal guru Friedman would find Ireland’s financial soap opera a bit of a giggle

MILTON Friedman, the architect of the current version of capitalism foisted on the world, must be looking down from wherever he is spending his afterlife and cracking a wry smile at the goings on in Ireland.

Mon, 12 Apr, 2010

Careless analysis of Pope’s pastoral letter

THE analysis by TP O’Mahony of the Pope’s pastoral letter (March 22) was the most careless I have read.

Fri, 26 Mar, 2010

The truth of it all

FOLLOWING the lead of Mairéad Scannell (Letters, October 22), I am going to “give political correctness the boot” and deliver some real Truth.

Wed, 28 Oct, 2009

Roundtable elite do not want a square deal for EU workers

SO the ruling class believes that rejecting the project of the ruling class, the Lisbon Treaty, was damaging to Ireland’s interests (Irish Examiner, July 27).

Mon, 10 Aug, 2009

We have to change our economic model

AS another G8 summit comes and goes we are again left with, judging from previous summits, potentially empty pledges on poverty and the usual frustrations in relation to the battle against climate change.

Thu, 23 Jul, 2009

Church of one billion is a victim of mob mentality

DESPITE the grossly unjust generalisations being made by some in response to the Ryan report, it is crazy to speak of the Catholic church as a corporate entity being responsible for these outrages.

Fri, 29 May, 2009

Transparent error in college chapel proposal

FROM recent reports it seems some group with the collective intelligence of a somewhat dim-witted hen wants to replace the doors at the west end of the Honan Chapel in UCC with glass double-glazed ones.

Tue, 18 Nov, 2008

Church reveals a spirit of inquiry

TONY PROCTOR (Letters, October 7) appears to believe that a Catholic ethos in schools tends to stunt high performance in mathematics, science and technology and that more generally it is inimical to a true spirit of educational inquiry.

Wed, 05 Nov, 2008

Gunboat takes aim at democracy

THE disconnect between the Government and the citizens whose interests it has been elected to represent has been strikingly illustrated by the recent astoundingly coercive measure taken against the Shell to Sea protesters.

Fri, 12 Sep, 2008

Censor gets zero rating for Batman classification

FILM censor John Kelleher — or classifier as he prefers to be known — disclaims all responsibility for the fact that parents brought young children to see the new Batman film and instead blames the parents themselves.

Tue, 12 Aug, 2008

Fisheries surrender was a great scandal

THE story of the surrender of the world’s richest fishing waters, consisting of the seas surrounding Britain and Ireland, is one of the most scandalous in the history of the EU.

Wed, 23 Jul, 2008

Critic was right to query commission’s response to treaty issues

I WISH to respond to Barry Walsh’s criticism (June 20) of the letter from Michael O’Driscoll (June 17) regarding the role of the Referendum Commission in relation to the yes side in the Lisbon Treaty campaign.

Mon, 07 Jul, 2008

Commission failed to carry out its mandate

DESPITE the victory for democracy last week, serious questions must now be asked of the Referendum Commission.

Tue, 17 Jun, 2008

Don’t vote for a superstate that holds its citizens in contempt

THE media recently reported on secret plans to develop EU embassies as part of the European External Action Service which will be instituted by the Lisbon Treaty.

Mon, 19 May, 2008

Rat-runs replace real urban planning

WHEN I set up home many years ago in what’s now the Cork suburb of Blackrock, it seemed we were living in the countryside.

Mon, 08 Jan, 2007

Paisley: the politically incorrect story of a demagogue

I WISH to express my agreement with Donal O’Driscoll (Irish Examiner letters, November 27) concerning Dr Ian Paisley.

Fri, 01 Dec, 2006