Tuesday 21 May 2013
• I notice that Mark Cahill, a 51-year-old from Britain, has become the first man in the UK to have revolutionary transplant surgery, and is now moving his fingers.
Surely there can now be no more excuses from the EU regarding giving us a hand with our bailout?
G G Flynn
Galway City
Irish Independent
* "When the crop fails, the king dies" is an ancient rule of Ireland, and more than any other law I have read, it is, in my opinion, the finest encapsulation of what political duty entails. Last week, a king of our most important crop, the nation's children, left this realm for the afterlife.
Madam – I write to offer a complimentary word to Willie Kealy on a quite superb article published on your front page (Sunday Independent, May 12, 2013). I find it uplifting, not to say encouraging, when a journalist hits the nail on the head, particularly when the target is one of our careerist elitist politicians. Another of your journalists, Gene Kerrigan, writes with laser-like accuracy in this regard. None fits the target bill better than the subject of your piece last week, Mr Bruton.
Madam – Young or old, it's the human legacy left behind that counts. Last weekend, within a day of each other, two noteworthy people sadly passed on to their eternal reward.
* "When the crop fails, the king dies" is an ancient rule of Ireland, and more than any other law I have read, it is, in my opinion, the finest encapsulation of what political duty entails. Last week, a king of our most important crop, the nation's children, left this realm for the afterlife.
Madam – I write to offer a complimentary word to Willie Kealy on a quite superb article published on your front page (Sunday Independent, May 12, 2013). I find it uplifting, not to say encouraging, when a journalist hits the nail on the head, particularly when the target is one of our careerist elitist politicians. Another of your journalists, Gene Kerrigan, writes with laser-like accuracy in this regard. None fits the target bill better than the subject of your piece last week, Mr Bruton.
Madam – Young or old, it's the human legacy left behind that counts. Last weekend, within a day of each other, two noteworthy people sadly passed on to their eternal reward.
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