THE recent budget brought into sharp relief the priorities of the Government and some of those independents who back them like Deputy Noel Grealish here in Galway West.

IT WAS interesting to hear over the past several years commentators from the left in Irish society almost congratulate themselves on the demise of their right-wing adversaries, the PDs.

I AGREE with Rory O’Donovan (Letters, May 16) that the cruelty involved in bloodsports is more likely to raise protest in certain political circles than the cruelty of abortion.

BEFORE Alex Marshall (Irish Examiner letters, August 13) seeks to defend the Irish Family Planning Association’s campaign for abortion in Ireland, he should inform himself more fully.

CAROLINE SPILLANE set out the primary goals of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (Irish Examiner letters, June 18).