IF, as Aisling Murphy (Letters, Nov 9) suggests, soldiers will get stressed at having to relocate, how would they cope if there was a war?

COULD the State explain the legal basis for the involuntary garda vetting of those unfortunate enough to live on the route that the state has decided to take Queen Elizabeth II along?

ON the same day recently that the Minister for Education and Skills went to the US to promote our education system, the Government published draft legislation to enshrine in law the right of people with no teaching qualification whatsoever to be employed and paid as teachers in Irish schools.

NAMA is buying loans from our banks and paying for them with our promise to pay at some time in the future.

THE recent report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on public service pensions gives the lie to many of the wilder estimates of the value of those pensions.

I’VE been down this tortuous road before with Anthony Leavy (Letters, April 29) in which he wheels out the usual anti-revisionist falsehoods regarding provocation in relation to 1916.

WHILE the destruction of Orange lodges in recent times is a step backward in terms of Anglo-Irish relations, I feel that Rural, Community and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuiv’s grant of €240,000 to the order is ludicrous.

So National Irish Bank wants us to move to more efficient payments, including direct debits?

YOU report (July 13) how a drink-fuelled driver doing 170km/h was killed when he crashed into a “treacherous” bridge.

YOUR editorial of March 30 stated there was no room for complacency over implementation of the workplace smoking ban.