Sir, – Echoing the recent articles by Fintan O’Toole (“How can Ireland be both filthy rich and bankrupt in ideas and ambitions?”, Opinion & Analysis, April 25th) and John FitzGerald (“Splurging the corporation tax windfall in exchange for votes would threaten the nation’s future”, Business, April 21st), in the absence of clear plans to modernise our public hospitals, many of my patients are still likely to be sharing a single toilet and shower between 14 other poor souls on the “long ward” in 10 years. If we can’t point to concrete improvements in our society at the end of this cycle of budgetary surplus for the second time in our history then our political system is not fit for purpose. – Yours, etc,
Dr MICHAEL
O’MAHONY,
Oughterard,
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Jack Reynor: ‘We were in two minds between eloping or going the whole hog but we got married in Wicklow with about 220 people’
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Ballsbridge mews formerly home to Irish musician for €1.95m
Co Galway.