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Arrogance of teenagers tolerated and cultivated

I travelled on the Luas recently and witnessed a small number of teenagers openly, and without challenge, intimidating passengers especially non-white passengers.

The media seems to have selective amnesia

Our democracy isn’t perfect but it functions

Stop making the EU the bad guy of the crash

GAA is great because it’s an amateur sport

We have benefitted enormously from the EU

Ten years on and we’re still in a trolley crisis

Your editorial on the nurses’ strike and what you call ‘the appalling mess of Ireland’s ailing health service’ reminded me of the totally opposite sentiments which were expressed in the Irish media during the height of the boom.

Wed, 16 Dec, 2015

Irish media not to be trusted on economics

The Irish media rightly complained about the cuts to public services over the years of austerity.

Sat, 17 Oct, 2015

We cannot afford global election of senators

John O’Callaghan is right when he tells us that the electorate ‘made a grave mistake’ in retaining the Seanad (Letters, October 12). The fact is that the Seanad is irrelevant and unaffordable in this recently bankrupt country.

Tue, 13 Oct, 2015

We have learnt nothing from the economic collapse

Michael Clifford is right when he says that ‘the recession that this country endured was wasted’ to the extent that there has been ‘little change’ in the ‘negative features that landed the country in the mire’ (Irish Examiner, August 26).

Sat, 29 Aug, 2015

There can only be but competition for 3rd level

Fergus Finlay asks the question as to why young people have to compete for the limited places in third level and implies that there is another way (Irish Examiner, August 18).

Thu, 20 Aug, 2015

We’ve had enough of this water charge hysteria

I’d have thought Fergus Finlay is around long enough and is removed from partisan party politics long enough to make some sense of our present political and economic situation. 

Wed, 03 Dec, 2014

Bankrupting of Ireland was of our own doing

Dr Geraldine Mooney-Simmie is not right when she says the bankrupting of this country was of ‘Europe’s making’ and that Trichet’s letter is ‘an issue of human and moral rights’ (Letters, November 14).

Thu, 20 Nov, 2014

Impact of wind energy programme on health is open to debate

As outlined in the letters page of August 15, Val Martin is as entitled as any other citizen to use his vote at election time to oppose what he calls the “scourge” of the “wind energy programme”.

Mon, 18 Aug, 2014