YEARS ago there used be a word commonly used in Dublin that we don’t hear so much these days: ‘messers’.

BRIAN BRITTON (Letters, September 18) reminds us once again that “Ireland is one of the countries with the greatest potential to develop offshore wind electricity-generating capacity”.

THE recent postponement of the Aer Lingus strike on the night before it was due to begin was about as useful to the intending passengers as a restaurant serving up meals after the diners had gone home.

PATRICK L O’BRIEN (Letters, July 6) is entirely correct to decry the “nonsense regarding the dangers of the nuclear option”.

HOW odd that the two most crucial issues of the 21st century — peak oil and climate change — hardly got a look-in during the election.

RESPONSIBILITY for Ireland’s Eurovision fiasco in Helsinki must lie with those who advised the composers of the lyrics.

THE call from the Oireachtas joint committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources for a public debate on nuclear energy is to be welcomed.