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Reader's Blog: Women must use majority status at the polls

One of the more important aspects of the 1918 election that is being commemorated now was that it was the first time women were allowed to vote.

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (18/07/16)

Celtic Tiger government entirely culpable

Thank you for stoking the economic bubble

Sarandon’s comments undermined quality of debate

Election letter: It’s a bit rich of Micheál to complain of scare tactics

Personality politics are concealing real issues

Politicians are only doing what is in their best interest in looking for votes.

Fri, 19 Feb, 2016

It’s sad to see what excites our electorate

A politician falls out of a boat. The democratic discourse on the internet goes viral.

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

Cutting €10bn agri-food industry to meet climate targets is no easy task

Your editorial (December 29) on the Paris conference on global warming focused on the narrow aspect of what you call “the disproportionately powerful farm lobby”.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

The agrifood sector is much more than the farming lobby

Your editorial (Irish Examiner) December 8 stated that even discussing the Irish agri-food industry in relation to global warming is ‘shameful’.

Fri, 11 Dec, 2015

It’s easy to explain why water network is a mess

Liam Byrne tells us that the provision of water and sewage facilities in this country has become ‘a political football’ (Letters December 8).

Thu, 10 Dec, 2015

Difficult decisions ahead on global warming

Achieving agreement on global warming is going to be difficult. Putting the agreement into operation is going to be even more difficult.

Sat, 05 Dec, 2015

Women can get their issues on the agenda

Alison O’Connor is right to advise women to question canvassers and politicians in the forthcoming election on female equality [Opinion, November 20].

Mon, 23 Nov, 2015

Irony of being lectured by Yanis Varoufakis

It is ironic that we have former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, lecturing us in this country about what constitutes a ‘paradigm of success’.

Mon, 09 Nov, 2015

Vote-buying budgets won’t build economy

Christy Kelly may be right when he points to ‘the drawbacks’ of the budgets ‘over the past seven or eight years’ of austerity as ‘imposing inequitable cuts ... without regard to the social consequences’. [Letters, October 28]. 

Fri, 30 Oct, 2015

The EU is not perfect but it is not a dictatorship

When Joe Brennan tells us that the EU is ‘an all-controlling dictatorship at the heart of Europe’ his declaration does not accord with the facts [Letters, October 8].

Thu, 08 Oct, 2015

We do not need lessons in governance from UK

In his recent TV programme David McWilliams went to London - a centre of colonial power for centuries - to get someone to denounce this small democracy and former colony as a ‘pariah state’.

Thu, 24 Sep, 2015

Barry-Murphy was calm in face of pointless noise

The ‘reverence for Jimmy Barry-Murphy’ is richly deserved (Irish Examiner, Sport, August 31).

Wed, 02 Sep, 2015

Media aren’t learning from its mistakes either

I listened to a radio presenter this morning pouring scorn on anyone who pays for a vital public utility.

Mon, 03 Aug, 2015

The politics of hypocrisy

Padraic Neary is right to complain about the hypocrisy of the political and media classes [Irish Examiner, Letters, January 30].

Sat, 31 Jan, 2015

Media’s hyping of Celtic Tiger contributed to economic collapse

Your columnist Michael Clifford rightly condemns the “same old political promises”, but he ignores the elephant in the room: media hype [Irish Examiner, January 3].

Thu, 08 Jan, 2015

Media not doing enough on water charge coverage

Michael Clifford says the Government has made a ‘hames’ of setting up the water infrastructure. If they have, the media coverage of the issue has not done much better.

Wed, 29 Oct, 2014

E-voting would have undermined credibility of the count

Declan Kenny may be right or wrong when he says that the proposed Irish post-codes are “a mess that will be foisted upon us” as part of our “less glorified history” of “willful ignorance and incompetence” [Letters, October 17]. 

Sat, 18 Oct, 2014

Beware of making the mistakes of the boom

Nick Foley blames ‘Labour under Burton’ and ‘Labour under Gilmore’ for ‘slowly flaying Paddy alive’ [Letters, October 11].

Wed, 15 Oct, 2014

Media is threatening the foundations of democracy

The power of the media in influencing our political attitudes will be measured by the survival or non-survival of the Taoiseach between now and the next general election.

Fri, 10 Oct, 2014

Journalists deserve to be criticised by public

Terry Prone tells us that ‘shouting abuse at journalists’ is not good (June 23). Why is it not? The media are as much to blame for the bankruptcy of the country as the politicians and bankers.

Thu, 26 Jun, 2014

No laughing matter

Terry Prone’s article on ‘challenging sexism with humour’ is apt (Irish Examiner, May 12).

Wed, 14 May, 2014

Men are the reason so few women in politics

I welcome Oisín Sheehan (aged 11) to the debate on why there are so few women in politics (Letters, April 29).

Tue, 06 May, 2014

Free press has vital role in democracy

I agree with Caitríona McClean’s praise for the Irish Examiner for ‘restoring her faith in the written media’ by criticising Taoiseach Kenny about ‘what might well be coercion’ by the ECB in relation to the bailout (Letters, Sept 1).

Wed, 05 Sep, 2012

Arrogance or generosity?

KILLIAN Brennan’s complaints about the German Bundestag hearing about our budget proposals in advance should be examined in a bit more detail (Letters, November 23).

Sat, 26 Nov, 2011

Ethical issue

IN his column (November 10), Steven King defended Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi by saying “over-zealous magistrates have only managed to find against him on one relatively minor perjury charge”.

Mon, 22 Nov, 2010

Wasting millions

I AGREE with James McGrath (‘Big spender’, Letters, October 14) that among ministers who have nearly bankrupted the country, Noel Dempsey — currently in the Transport portfolio — holds a special place of honour among his peers for extravagant waste of taxpayers’ money.

Wed, 20 Oct, 2010

No to dictatorship

WE have a country that has been brought to the brink of bankruptcy because a small number of people at the head of government, banks and building became virtually untouchable.

Thu, 07 Oct, 2010

The real story on tax

YOU quote an economist from Goodbody (September 7) offering the usual argument that because the top 4% of earners pay close to 48% of all income tax we can expect lower paid workers to face tax hikes in the next budget.

Sat, 11 Sep, 2010

Overpaid politicians

IN self-justifying mode, Martin Mansergh says public service pay, with which politicians’ salaries are linked, has been reduced by 15%-20% (Letters, September 4).

Wed, 08 Sep, 2010

Coughlan is right

I DO not agree with your columnist Matt Cooper (August 20) when he says Education Minister Mary Coughlan is wrong to defend the Leaving Cert and not to introduce fees for third-level colleges.

Fri, 27 Aug, 2010

Soft on the minister

IN his Béal na mBláth address, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is quoted as understanding the public “incomprehension and anger” at the vast sums of money being pumped into the banking sector.

Thu, 26 Aug, 2010

Politicians get a free run on expenses issue

YOUR editorial on the “embarrassment” of members of the Government because of the Callely affair is apt (August 7).

Tue, 10 Aug, 2010

Challenge to press

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer (July 10) is right to bemoan the lack of real protest despite the fact that our bankers and politicians have betrayed the country and are behaving with contempt for the rest of us.

Tue, 13 Jul, 2010

Abuse of power: our former rulers did it best

DECLAN Doyle’s obsequious attitude to the proposed visit to this country of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is hard to defend (Letters, June 28).

Wed, 30 Jun, 2010

Democracy pays the price for a masterstroke

AN RTÉ commentator on the main evening TV news (June 9) said it was a masterstroke that the Government got away with not allowing the Dáil discuss the banking reports.

Fri, 11 Jun, 2010

Callely a diversion from the real issues

I DISAGREE with you when you say Ivor Callely’s “relatively trivial expenses wheeze” constitutes “a litmus test moment for the Irish political class and our political culture” (Editorial, June 5).

Wed, 09 Jun, 2010

Transport policy as bankrupt as the state

I WISH to congratulate Peadar Ó Laoire (Letters, May 22) for highlighting the “daft” proposal to spend millions digging a rail tunnel connecting Heuston and Connolly stations in Dublin when, as he says, a virtually unused rail connection between the two stations already exists.

Tue, 25 May, 2010

Banks and public debt are not separate issues

I AGREE with your columnist Ivan Yates when he says (April 15) members of the public service should, in their own interests, approve the Croke Park agreement.

Thu, 29 Apr, 2010

RTÉ ‘stars’ fail to get to grips with politicians

I WELCOME Richard Duncliffe’s complaint about “woefully weak questioning” of government ministers by RTÉ’s “star performers” (Letters, April 20).

Tue, 27 Apr, 2010

It’s up to women

IN her letter headlined ‘Men only’ (April 10), Florence Craven complains that “in addition to being the ones who caused the banking crisis, men are the only ones commenting on it and its solutions”.

Tue, 13 Apr, 2010

Inability to pay

IN his brief “memo to teacher” (Letters, April 8), PJ McElhone says he cannot afford to “restore” teachers’ pay.

Mon, 12 Apr, 2010

Bailing out our masters

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan made it clear that “the state will step into the breach” if it has to so that the banks with have the capital they need to survive (March 6).

Fri, 12 Mar, 2010

Don’t blame minions for the mess

YOUR editorial on the Willie O’Dea affair blames what you call “our tolerance of institutionalised dishonesty” for the problems of the country (January 20).

Tue, 23 Feb, 2010

A straight line through square miles of verbiage

HAVING on occasion given out through clenched teeth and in language liberally interspersed with four-letter Anglo-Saxon about some of the stuff that Terry Prone writes, I must now congratulate her on her column (February 15) about recent high-profile political resignations.

Thu, 18 Feb, 2010