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How came we to this sorry pass? Stuffed by the political class, Self interest, it ruled the day, No Whitaker and no Lemass.

By Gary Culliton.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dr Ruairi Hanley has three tales of how, despite the recession, the Irish service industry is failing to ‘service’ its customers and employing greedy, short-sighted tactics.

While accepting we must cut our cloth according to our measure, Dr Mick Molloy says special-needs assistants should be exempt from the master tailors cutting our new economic clothing.

Dear Editor, I am writing about the letter I saw in Irish Medical Times regarding the lack of credit afforded to a man who visited his GP for a letter of referral (‘‘No credit’ signs would prevent embarrassment’, March 18, 2011, ).

Dear Editor, Until quite recently I was self-employed.