Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I was pleased that the editorial, in your last edition, covered the subject of bin charges for those on low incomes. I can understand your view that both myself and Cllr O’Halloran “would do more for vulnerable citizens by lobbying their ministerial colleagues to introduce the mooted National Waiver Scheme than by asking a private company for charity”.
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Dear Editor,   It has been just over a month since the passing of John McCarthy. While John was better known in recent years as the founder of Mad Pride, he has been involved with and helped many other individuals and family groups.
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Received in response to 'Living in fear - Racist attacks on special needs boy', last week's front page story. Dear Editor, I read your front page story in yesterday's paper about the special needs boy from Cameroon who is on the receiving end of bullying and anti-racist sentiments.
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Dear editor,I would like to respond by agreeing with Rory who wrote in about the bus service in Cork last week. I am originally from Cork and think the bus drivers do have a very difficult job. It could be made easier in a few ways.
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Dear editor,I read the article on problems bus drivers are having with customers on the No. 5 and No. 8 routes. When I was made unemployed, I had to sell my motorbike to end my loan repayments so now I have to use the bus service so I feel sorry for these drivers.
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Do you believe that Cork City Council is in place to serve the people of Cork city?
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More than one thousand parking spaces will be free for the month of November in Cork City centre to give an early Christmas present to shoppers/visitors. This incentive was developed following detailed discussions and the support of Cork City Council, which has two public multi-story car parks in Paul Street and North Main Street.
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The discovery of a missing three billion euro in the Department of Finance will allow the Labour party to re-instate the annual Christmas bonus to those dependent on social welfare. The money must be used to ensure that the less well off are not further hit in the coming budget.
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There has been much discussion and public debate about the credit union movement’s current state and its future role and development. This has been informed in part by the Interim Report from the Commission on Credit Unions, which was set-up at the behest of the ILCU by the Government, to make recommendations regarding the strengthening of the regulatory framework for Credit Unions and to inform the preparation of Credit Union legislation to be published by year-end 2011.
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In this land of saints, scholars and hypocrites, if any of the candidates standing for Presidency have in the past been accused, but not found guilty of anything, are they any more accountable to the nation than the politicians and others who have left the country in the state it is in today?
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A chara, This 12 May we waked Patrick Galvin, one of our great national poets in Connolly Hall in Cork. His remains had been brought there from his home in Douglas in a horse drawn hearse. Patrick was the first man to ever be waked in Cork’s Connolly Hall, and this on the very day that James Connolly was killed in 1916; we knew that Paddy would have been honoured.
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Dear Editor,I am writing to you about my and many other peoples concerns for the music industry in Ireland. As I understand, you understand the importance of Irish produced artists. We have a petition in circulation and would like to give people a choice to sign it or not.
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Dear Editor, We’re calling on the public to help the Irish Heart Foundation celebrate life after stroke by nominating stroke survivors for our second annual Stroke Awards this November. The awards, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, will pay tribute to the courage and bravery of stroke survivors and their carers from all around the country.
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Dear Editor,We’d like to invite your readers to consider organising an Open Fair in the locality. This national movement of free, community-based talent exchanges is aimed at helping people to make a living from their own skills and initiative.
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