Election campaigning

Sir, – To those who seek my vote, demonstrating vice in another does not render you virtuous. Luxuriating in another’s ineptitude does not make you capable. It is about the solutions, not the problems.

Is Irish society the servant or the master of the economy? – Yours, etc,

GERRY CHRISTIE,

Tralee,

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Co Kerry.

Sir, – The flood of promises from the different political parties as to what they would do if and when they achieve power reminds me of the retort Abraham Lincoln gave to a boastful army general – the hen is the wisest in the farmyard for it cackles after it lays the egg. – Yours, etc,

PAUL REDMOND,

Lucan,

Co Dublin.