THE big political parties claim it would be unwise to reject the Lisbon treaty. They say it would reflect badly on us and we would be seen as ungrateful after all the prosperity the EU has brought us.

OUR outgoing Taoiseach has declared the failure to build a national stadium as his biggest regret after his long tenure in office. “The country needed it and required it,” he said (April 7).

IT is with regret I learned of the failed legal bids to stop the sale of Waterford Port (Northside) to private developers. Every time public property falls into private hands, something has been stolen from the ordinary people.

THE funding for the maintenance and development of cancer services has been laid bare (Irish Examiner, November 22).

I WAS shocked by recent reports that the Government’s special savings scheme (SSIAs) is to cost taxpayers €3bn.