Michael Clifford (Irish Examiner, May 7) is absolutely right about people taking offence (or not ). There is no such thing as a ‘right not to be offended’. And there is certainly no such legal right . That leaves me two paradoxes here.

There is a poster with an inaccurate message hanging from various lampposts around here: ‘children deserve a mother and father’, they say.

Whatever about the past abuses in the quashing of penalty points, surely it is blindingly obvious what should happen in future — the next time a garda hands me a ticket for something, all its details should immediately and automatically appear on a publicly accessible website.

Richard Fitzpatrick quotes Raymond Chandler: “When in doubt have a man come in the door with a gun in his hand.”