Last Monday I attended the Claire Byrne Live debate on Irish Water in RTÉ. Even though I have registered with Irish Water I have not paid any bills. However I am not a committed non-payer. 

I took great comfort in reading Ursula Halligan’s article about her sexuality. While her journey is different to mine we are of a similar generation and I can identify with so much of what she wrote especially that she tried to deny her sexuality.

In a few weeks time people who have registered their details with Irish Water will receive their first bills. 

As we face into the new year, I wish to share my feelings of peace.

My stance in favour of water charges had been because of the conservation argument.

Sally O’Reilly’s letter, “Cuddihy deaths caused by a lot more than untreated depression” (Letters, September 3, Irish Examiner) is somewhat reactionary.

This World Cup is a treat to watch.

Well done to Cork senior footballer Eoin Cadogan “Top GAA figures urge men to share problems” (Irish Examiner 30/10/13) for urging people in emotional distress “to realise that there was nothing wrong with ‘opening up’.

With regard to the article, “Mental health ‘a stigma’ for youths seeking help” (Irish Examiner, Sep 10), Paul Gilligan said “the stigma which still attached to mental-health issues needed to be tackled, with a greater emphasis on the problem at school level”.

THE Green Party initiative towards political consensus was not a “blunderbuss act of political desperation”, as stated by your political correspondent Shaun Connolly (October 19).

Al GORE’S film, An Inconvenient Truth, finally gives the issue of global warming the attention it deserves and it makes for compelling viewing.