REFERRING to the Government in his budget day article, Fergus Finlay said it will be many, many years before this crowd is inflicted on us again.

I CANNOT understand why simple improvements are overlooked in this country.

I’M afraid William Evers isn’t as well educated as he might think (Irish Examiner letters, August 19). The gall of him to ask “of what use is a person who is illiterate and cannot add or subtract?”

IN RESPONSE to your lead story, ‘Sinn Féin economic policies to cost €5bn more a year’ (Irish Examiner, July 12), the situation is not as bad as your political editor, Harry McGee, implies.

FAIR play to Fibber Magees. Perhaps this is the start of Ireland’s own battle against prohibition, although in this case, smoking tobacco isn’t illegal.