I would like to respond to Tom Mangan's attack on the Green Party and its politics in government (Letters, September 29).
Mr Mangan sensationally describes carbon taxes as potentially condemning our elderly citizens to freeze to death when, in fact, home-heating oil is cheaper than it was two years ago, even with the carbon tax.
And carbon taxes do not apply to coal and briquettes.
Letters to the Editor Sir - I would like to comment on Philip Ryan's article (Sunday Independent, April 15) about Minister Katherine Zappone's introduction of 'baby boxes' to all parents of newborn babies in our maternity hospitals.
Letters to the Editor Sir - Restrictions to abortion do not reduce the rate of abortions. In other words, the Eighth Amendment has not saved any lives. The recent 'Abortion Worldwide 2017' study shows that abortion occurs as frequently in the two most restrictive regimes as the two least restrictive regimes.
Letters to the Editor Sir - Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame has made the ultimate sacrifice representing the uniform which he wore with pride. In saving a life [in last month's jihadist attack in France] by forfeiting his own, he has saved many others by showing the whole world how to behave in the face of terror.
