The sale of Glin Castle in Co Limerick is an opportunity for the State to show that it is not still suffering from the illness of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Isn’t it interesting how quick the media have been to point out that the recent election results are a wake-up call to the Government to rethink its austerity strategies and to find an alternative policy.

I am more shocked and angry that people like the Taoiseach, Minister for Finance and others, claim that they too are shocked and angry at the revelations from the Anglo tapes.

Is it right of the Garda Commissioner to waste his time on a witch-hunt because Gardaí stand up for their principles?

Call me cynical, but as moving as Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s speech was I seem to recall he’s used the catch in the throat gimmick before.

As Enda Kenny will become the first sitting Taoiseach to give the address at Béal na Bláth tomorrow, it is worth asking if he is a suitable person to do so.

Yet again, the media bandwagon latch onto expense claims by Sinn Féin and completely miss the bigger picture, while the silence from other parties tells its own story.

DID I actually read that Fianna Fáil will support the nomination of Gay Byrne and that property developer Harry Crosbie would arrange a dig-out to fund his campaign?

NOW that the election date has been set, it is time for the Irish public to make a serious effort to vote intelligently.

WASN’T there once a time when anyone who “interfered” to help a victim of domestic violence was told to mind their own business, not only by the abuser but usually by the gardaí and the local priest too?

ISN’T it the wrong question to ask whether people prefer Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny or Labour leader Eamon Gilmore?

IT is remarkable that anyone should seem pleased we have added another €1.5 billion of debt (bond auction) onto the backs of the Irish taxpayer.

IN case any readers are confused why Fianna Fáil now feels Ivor Callely has “brought the party into disrepute” and should be ejected from the party and to consider resigning from the Oireachtas, when the most outrage it could muster against Beverly Flynn, who was proven in a court of law to have actively facilitated tax dodging, was to remove the party whip, they need to understand Fianna Fáil doesn’t depend on Callely’s vote to stay in office so he is expendable.

THE last time Fianna Fáil got over 45% in an election was in the early 1980s, while even during the ‘Celtic Myth’ years it failed to get over 40%.

I NOTE the ship attacked by the Israeli defence forces (IDF) was funded by the Turkish IHH, which is widely accepted to be an extreme fundamentalist organisation with links to al-Quaida.

HERE’S a radical idea that Mark Mulqueen of the Oireachtas Communications Office (Letters, May 12) might like to share with his colleagues in Leinster House.

NO sane and rational person could listen to Msgr Maurice Dooley justify what Cardinal Brady did without being agog (RTÉ, March 15).

CAN it possibly be true that as NAMA, one of the most corrupt acts ever inflicted on the people of Ireland, was being voted on, only 143 out of 166 members of the Dáil could manage to cast their vote?

WHY shouldn’t the unions refuse to budge an inch? Not one of the people responsible for the mess Ireland is in has been held to account.