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Sir — I am a former member of the Artane Boys Band, having been a proud and enthusiastic member for seven years through the 1990s. These years were hugely formative for me.

The Budget brings a Rolling Stones number to mind. You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Quite.

One reader calls for compassion in the debate about assisted dying, while others consider issues including public spending, organ donation, hunting, and landlords rights 

As a GP of 45 years who still does house calls, especially to those requiring palliative care, I would like to add my voice and personal experience to have a bill on assisted dying passed.

Sir — Diageo’s 4pc increase in the price of a pint of Guinness, added to the 12pc increase in February, is enough to drive anyone to drink.

Will the GAA answer a question for me. When will you put a protocol in place that ensures both teams don’t enter the dressing-room tunnel at the same time when the half-time whistle blows?

Listen very carefully to the wise words of President Michael D Higgins, especially Tánaiste Micheál Martin. The President is again to the fore on a vital issue confronting our nation.

Sir — In last week’s Sunday Independent, Colin Murphy wrote that “in the 1950s, Ireland had the highest proportion of psychiatric beds in the world” and also that an inquiry is warranted into former psychiatric institutions similar to other residential institutions that have been investigated in Ireland. I agree.

It has been said that the root cause of most problems stems from government failures.

Apart from the dyed-in-the-wool fruitcakes still living in la-la land, most people with more than three working brain cells can now see the stupidity of Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nigel Farage and their fellow idealogues in Britain.