Why do I have to foot the bill for uninsured?
HAVING got the quote for renewal of my motor insurance, I am livid.
Not because of the increased cost but due to the attached and additional ‘Government levy’. Rather than being rewarded for our proper behaviour, we lawabiding drivers are being fleeced and punished by being forced to subsidise motoring cheats who fail to insure themselves.
I doubt that the State has a legal right to its pick-pocket behaviour and if challenged it is likely that all its ill-gotten gains would have to be returned to the long-suffering insured motorists. Clearly it’s much easier for the State to continue with its unchecked, remiss and lazy attitude in aiding and abetting the uninsured at the expense of the law-abiding.
However, that convenient and relaxed imposition does not make for honest governance.
Occasionally we hear spokesmen who purport to represent the motorist condemning the rising related costs but why do they fail to take the State to task for its unethical involvement through its many adverse acts?
DENIS O’HIGGINS, Monaghan.
Uncovering abuse
HOW many appalling abuse cases like that of ‘Grace’ have to be endured before proper action is taken to safeguard against such inhumanities?
It is highly likely that similiar cruelties are being perpetrated even now. What is needed is a mechanism of frequent, in-depth inspections of all care places. NOEL HARRINGTON,
Kinsale, Co. Cork.
The truth about Brexit
IT’S encouraging to see the British paying such attention to the situation of the North in the context of Brexit (Irish Daily Mail, yesterday).
However, I wonder if it’s really a practical option to have an entirely electronic border between the North and the Republic, with no physical checkpoints.
We know that control of borders was a key reason why many UK voters voted for Brexit. They were not happy with EU requirements of free movement that were spurring huge levels of immigration.
It would be odd, to say the least, for the UK to go through the entire trauma of Brexit, only to agree not to patrol its only land border with the EU.
Post-Brexit, what’s to stop would-be immigrants to the UK from flying to Dublin and taking a bus or train across the border? What Brexit minister David Davis is now claiming and what is likely to happen in reality could be two very different things.
PAT MURPHY, Dublin.
An unthinkable tragedy
DANIELLE McLaughlin’s murder in Goa (Mail, yesterday) is unbearably tragic. She seems to have been so happy and full of idealism. For her to have been killed so savagely, so far from home, is hard to comprehend.
I hope it will be possible for her family to get her body home as soon as possible.
ANDREA MAHON, by email.
Money down the drain
MILLIONS of euros are lost each year to the Exchequer by the flaw in serving summonses by registered post.
This occurs due to the fact that when the post-person calls at the address of the alleged defaulter, that alleged defaulter can refuse to sign for the registered post containing the summons.
If the alleged defaulter does not answer the door when the postman calls, a ‘docket in box’ note is left to inform the addressee, that they can collect that item by calling to their local post-office to redeem that item.
It is unlikely that the defaulter will do this. These flaws create a huge loss of revenue, not alone to RTÉ but to other corporate bodies too. EDWARD MAHON, Clonskeagh, Dublin.
Bad hair days
WHAT is it with the current trend in men’s hairstyles?
Some look as though they’ve had ENDA Kenny was in the Oval Office yesterday for his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump. So what was the Taoiseach saying to the US president? Every week our Caption Competition gives you the chance to write a humorous caption for a picture from the week’s news. The best entry wins a €30 Eason token. Send us your entries by email to captions@dailymail.ie or else by post to Caption Competition, Irish Daily Mail, Embassy House, Herbert Park Lane, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Entries should arrive by next Thursday, March 23. Last week we asked what a very relaxed looking Barack Obama was saying as he was pictured emerging from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The winning entry, printed left, came from David Doyle of Westport, Co. Mayo. their hair cut with a knife and fork and others as though they’ve been standing out in a gale for hours.
A grey-haired gentleman on the news the other morning was sporting a quiff which made him look like a demented cockatoo.
No doubt it costs a bomb to look so unkempt. Mrs J. BRIGGS, Kent.