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Brad Pitt has pulled out of starring in 'The Lost City of Z'.

THE Dáil returned from its spring break yesterday and if most of us were to be honest we’d far prefer to try clean up the scandalous mess left by Michael Fingleton at Irish Nationwide — a loss of €2.9bn for 2009 — rather than take on the huge challenges facing our Government.

WE HAVE been under siege from the prophets of doom, each of whom has, like an Old Testament avenger waving his flaming sword, rattled off figures so depressing that they would make a decent man kick his dog.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is in Paris today for an official visit that marks the Libyan leader’s return to grace.

I AM writing in response to Monica Gracia’s derogatory and unjustified comments regarding Ireland’s unemployed people and the Government’s attitude to them (‘Spanish visitor baffled by the workshy Irish’, Letters, August 10).

A MAN irritated by children throwing rocks at his house shot dead a nine-year-old boy.

A man irritated by children throwing rocks at his house shot dead a nine-year-old boy.

ASK Paddy Curran where he lives and he will proudly tell you: “El Dorado.”

YOUR article on libraries (Irish Examiner, July 21), otherwise excellent, had no interview with any library user.