PEOPLE often complain that government ministers are indecisive, that they dither and try to “park” problems in the hope they will go away.

IT is unfair to blame the majority for the sins of the few in institutions run by religious orders.

ON rereading my letter (January 5), I can see how Colm Burke MEP misunderstood what I said (Letters, January 23).

THERE are several inaccurate points in the letter from Colm Burke MEP (‘Legal assurances not enough to reverse Lisbon vote,’ December 22).

Fines totalling €250,000 have been imposed on two companies and suspended prison sentences on two men arising out of the death of a young father of one on a Bray building site.

THE other night, I had the misfortune to spend some time in a pub. For the first hour, the air pollution levels were tolerable, but then somebody lit up a cigar.

THE Government has decided that the TV licence fee is to be increased from 88 to 150, an increase of 70%.