4th June 2012 The Editor, Letters Page, The Sunday Independent   Dear Editor, Your correspondent Michael O’Meara ( letters 3rd June) seems to think it is acceptable to refer to me and my fellow Councillors across the country as “Vultures”. As someone who has been re-elected to Dublin City Council in 1999, 2004 and 2009 [...]

The Editor, The Sunday Times. Dear Editor So “never been elected to anything” Paul Murphy MEP, is suddenly an authority on Labour voters (Sunday Times 3rd June) and the Labour Party. For the record, as a member of Dublin City Council since 1993, the voters of Ballsbridge have re-elected me in 1999, 2004 and 2009, along with [...]

This letter was published in the Sunday Business Post on May 27th 2012. Dear Editor, That tired old commentator Tom McGurk, allied to that other tired old commentator Vincent Browne, have been regurgitating their same tired old nonsense now, for decades, in  both print and on screen. Rather than the new Political Party that they [...]

The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, Dear Editor, Paul Mallee, President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, (letters 16thSeptember) is correct to say that we need a system that would see an integrated Dublin Transport Plan determined fairly and speedily rather than the current ad-hoc, project by project basis. Surely that is [...]

The Editor, Letters Page, The Sunday Business Post. Dear Editor, What a pity that Jennifer O’Connell (SPB 18th October) should reduce a reasonably balanced piece about the need for good planning to a typically mean-spirited attack on those living in Council housing. Thanks to the foresight of my predecessors as Dublin City Councillors my parents [...]

Published in The Irish Times 14th May 2009 Madam, – As we begin the final stages of the local and European elections campaign it might be worthwhile reflecting on how politics and these elections are covered in the media. Unfortunately, political integrity and commitment are often presented as if they only occur at the extremes. [...]

The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times. (Published 12th February 2009) Dear Editor, I have been reluctant to respond to the naïve, cheap and silly letters regarding the rejection by An Bord Pleanala of the proposals for the Jury’s/Berkeley Court sites. The number of references to “well heeled residents” and “leafy suburbs” became boring after [...]

The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times. Dear Editor, Green Party T.D., Ciaran Cuffe, (Irish Times Opinion 22nd January) wrote about the need for Dublin Bus reform at the same time as the Government he supports is rowing back on the need for a relevant and focused Dublin Transport Authority. Last year, the Minister for [...]

The Editor, The Sunday Independent. Dear Editor, Two articles last week – one by Eilis O’Hanlon, the other by Eoghan Harris made me reflect about the need for more thoughtful, intelligent and balanced politics in Ireland. As we begin a New Year, a year that will see Local and European Elections, another Referendum on Lisbon [...]

The Editor, The Sunday Business Post. Dear Editor, The article High Time for high-rise (Stephen Price, Agenda 11th January) more than anything highlighted the need for The Sunday Business Post to employ a Local Government Correspondent. Now, I will leave it to others to defend “greedy builders” – I have no intention of doing so. [...]