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SIPTU pay hike requests of 5% are reckless given our national debt

Set the price high and we can always come down, is an old way of haggling and it looks like it too forms Jack O’Connor of SIPTU’s industrial relations tactics.

Water on roofs can meet our household needs

How counter insurgency campaign was born

All not in the same boat for austerity

Government of contradictions failing on jobs

Teaching of history under attack yet again

Our next president should be Euro-sceptic

RICHARD POWER (Letters, June 22) states that “the greatest problems facing this country are economic”. He then suggests that the best person to deal with this economic problem is Pat Cox.

Wed, 29 Jun, 2011

Self-employed suffer

THERE is increasing evidence that the self-employed citizens of Ireland are being discriminated against.

Mon, 07 Feb, 2011

YOUR editorial (January 22), while trying to be neutral in the air traffic controllers’ dispute, was guilty of muddying the water. The strike was clearly over the suspension of the controllers and not about anything else.

Sat, 30 Jan, 2010

Legally bound

It is wrong to suggest Tom Cruise’s wedding would not be recognised simply because the ceremony was conducted in the Church of Scientology.

Thu, 23 Nov, 2006

Sea walls not the answer to global warming

YOUR columnist Steven King derides Eamon Ryan TD for warning that we face dire results of climate change (Irish Examiner, November 8). Mr King implies that the Green deputy is an eco-fundamentalist and that such people are brainwashed.

Sat, 11 Nov, 2006

Menace of path cyclists

I’VE recently had a hip replacement and on my first day out in Patrick Street in Cork, I was almost run over by a speeding cyclist.

Tue, 30 May, 2006

Fair trade in oil would soon end traffic chaos

RECENTLY I asked a man with a keen interest in current affairs whether he detected a strong pro-Arab sentiment in this country.

Fri, 26 Aug, 2005