OF course it suits the Fianna Fáil agenda to encourage the rush to blame the bankers and builders for the mess Ireland is now in. Anything to shift the blame from where it really lies.

IT seems the well of denial about the causes of the recession in Ireland runs deep if your columnist Matt Cooper (December 12) thinks Charlie McCreevy has anything to offer.

PERHAPS Darren Mac an Phríora (‘FG complacent on Irish language policy’, Letters, April 25) should have contacted the Israeli embassy rather than the Fine Gael frontbench with regard to how best to revive the Irish language.

OUR late former president, Dr Patrick Hillery, represented the last generation of honest Fianna Fáil politicians and it is right he is mourned and his record of public service honoured.

FUNNY how those who claim abortion is murder, such as Rory O’Donovan (Letters, February 18), are never about at the end of an unplanned pregnancy to offer the mother — and it is usually only the mother is left to carry the baby — the support needed so that she can nurture her child sufficiently to give it the self-confidence needed to reach full potential.