On Oct 16, one day after the budget, Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced: “At the outset, we have reversed Fianna Fáil’s plan to increase income tax by €500m over two years, and have maintained income-tax rates, bands and credits to ensure that work continues to pay for working families.”

I WISH to complain at the nature of the headline on your bottom front page article about Irish men using prostitutes in New Zealand (Sept 8).

SEAMUS DE BURCA (Irish Examiner letters, March 13) incorrectly labelled the debate on drift nets as a political football, with all political parties abandoning the small coastal communities.

THE Irish salmon is facing an unprecedented crisis. Stocks are devastated and many rivers are now practically devoid of salmon. But there is a solution.