In Brief: Internment . . . Cuckoos . . . Tolerance . . . Dail vote
- We have suffered months of financial terrorism at the hands of a secretive, subversive and unrepresentative minority.
It appears that our democratic system and laws are unable to protect us by punishing the offenders and taking them out of circulation -- even though we are pretty sure who most of them they are.
In similar circumstances in the past, governments have used internment without trial. If nothing else, we would know where they were at night and be able to get a little sleep.
Kieran Magennis
Clonskeagh Road, Dublin 6
- I haven't heard the cuckoo yet, but watching the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis I think I spotted more than one worried minister flying over the nest. Is this a record?
Gerry O'Donnell
Dublin 15
- Gary Brown takes issue with David Quinn's objection that on 'Today With Pat Kenny' last Monday, no dissenting voice or hard questions were heard in a four-person panel-discussion in favour of same-sex marriage ('Gay marriage rant is outdated', Letters, February 28), asserting that "people are more open-minded and tolerant".
Except, it seems, when it comes to opposing views. Has this "tolerant" man no sense of irony?
Tony Allwright
Killiney, Co Dublin
- Week after week we hear national radio news bulletins and newspaper reports categorically stating that the Dail has passed this and that controversial bill.
Such reporting of the pension levy "passed by the Dail" has tipped me over the edge. Listen up people, I have news. The Dail DID NOT pass the pension levy bill, the Government did.
The Opposition voted against it. The Government -- made up of Fianna Fail, the Green Party and independents -- has a majority. Let's get it right!
Sinéad Máire Ní Bhroin
Monkstown, Co Dublin
