Straight to the POINT

IF Enda Kenny or Joan Burton think they can buy our vote with a €3 weekly increase in our pensions, they are living in Disneyland.

J. McCOURT, Dundalk, Co. Louth. IN his Budget speech, Mr Noonan laughed at Charlie McCreevy’s line: ‘If I have it then I’ll spend it!’ How many of us will be laughing when the next finance minister will have to ‘borrow’ nearly €2billion to pay for the goodies being thrown to us as bribes for votes? One thing Mr Noonan did not remember when laughing at Charlie McCreevy. Charlie won; Noonan could well lose!

WENDY HAYES, Galway. BRENDA Power (Mail) says the tragedy in Omeath, Co. Louth, is proof we must treat domestic violence against women more seriously. She’s right but the other lesson is the need to do more to tackle dissident republicans such as Mackin.

PAT MURPHY, via email.