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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Media did not inform people of dangers

Alison O’Connor (Opinion, Jan 24) is not right when she says that the culture of entitlement has survived because “Irish people could hardly countenance anything different”.

Higher salaries for senators would be a bit rich

FF-FG merger would not be good for democracy

In her letter of Oct 11, Cllr Fiona Kerins says that we in Ireland ‘scored much better than the big two’ — France and Germany — in some past ‘mathematical metric’ that assessed how each country was doing economically. The fact that Ireland is now bankrupt highlights the failings of that particular mathematical metric.

Wed, 17 Oct, 2012

Timely article on waste of natural capital

Given the problems caused by the decisions of powerful people in governments, financial institutions, etc., the article by Paddy Woodworth (May 17) is very timely.

Sat, 19 May, 2012

No point in raising corporate tax

Tarun Kapoor from the Business School at the University of Cambridge advocates “a 28% increase in the [corporation] tax rate”.

Tue, 15 May, 2012

One-party state during Celtic Tiger years

Subsequent to the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report there seems to be a consensus in the media that we knew all along about the venality of the most powerful of our public representatives and the report only confirms that.

Mon, 26 Mar, 2012

New orthodoxy needs open debate on euro

Colette Browne (Opinion, Jan 25) is right when she says that “the government has run out of straws at which to clutch” when it tells those of us that complain “to live in the real world”.

Thu, 26 Jan, 2012

Bail-out under scrutiny

BRIAN MCKNIGHT (Letters, August 31) asks if “prudence counted for anything during the last 14 years”, when he objects to “the rest of us” bailing out people who “lost the run of themselves”.

Fri, 02 Sep, 2011

This island voted to reject wrongs of past

I SEE James O’Leary’s point about having problems with the dictum that “history should be left in the past” when Queen Elizabeth II visits (April 14).

Mon, 18 Apr, 2011

Gender imbalance

WILLIAM MONGEY declares the fact that a female candidate expected “solidarity from another female candidate” in the election to be “sexism” (March 2).

Mon, 07 Mar, 2011

Yates’s proposal not in the national interest

THE proposal by Ivan Yates (Opinion, June 11) for “all party agreement” in “the national interest” is, as he himself acknowledged, “utopian, naïve and undemocratic”.

Fri, 12 Jun, 2009