It was refreshing to hear Taoiseach Enda Kenny acquaint the public with an eternal truism, in his announcement of the Government’s new jobs strategy and attitude to long-term welfare payments (Jul 18) — ‘there is nothing for nothing’, he said.

IT seems to be increasingly the norm for RTÉ to allow its staff to reduce the pronounced English alphabet to just 24 letters. Hence, on Sunday afternoons, I am typically informed that golfer X has shot “a sevinny-two this aftinoon”.

IRELAND does not have one paramedic working in the ambulance or fire services. There are too many unnecessary deaths and I blame the policies of the Department of Health and Children and the Department of Finance.