AFTER 800 years under the yoke of the foreign oppressor, it looks like we’ve got another 800 under the yoke of the foreign assessor.

IN stating his belief that Bishop Donal Murray will make the “appropriate decision”, did Willie O’Dea mean it in the sense of the bishop taking responsibility for his actions and resigning or did he mean it in the Fianna Fáil sense of blaming someone else, taking no responsibilty whatsoever and bluffing away?

JOHN O’DONOGHUE Dáil speech revealed just how bad things are. Talk about being out of touch. He actually doesn’t get it, does he? Scary.

WITH all the excitement over the Large Hadron Collider and the CERN experiments in Switzerland, people now realise the world isn’t going to end.

ON page 2 (May 24), you published a picture of a protest by the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) in Dublin which included a placard that read ‘Nurses — you think you’ve got it bad’.