IN their unseemly rush to generate profit from the site of the Mountjoy prison complex, the Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats coalition is stamping over the rights of people who are ill and in confinement.

THE newly-elected mayor of Limerick, Diarmuid Scully, who has been expelled from the conservative Fine Gael party, is now in a position to raise issues of concern to the less well off, such as the jailing of people who cannot pay refuse charges.