Your columnist Michael Clifford is right when he says that “journalists are as prone to displaying integrity as your average guard, teacher, solicitor, butcher or baker” (September 5).

As one who holds the view that this country is bankrupt because the powerful people in government, financial institutions etc were not adequately held to account by the free press, I am in agreement with Colette Browne when she criticises minister Rabbitte for his ‘attack on political media’ (May 23).

IN HER letter of November 4, Louise Patricia Sheridan says proposed changes to increase the number of women candidates “could possibly contribute to the exclusion of an excellent male candidate, so as to include a female of lesser ability”.