Thank you Victoria White for your article (Irish Examiner, July 23) on the use of donor sperm and eggs.

As regards John Fitzgerald’s letter (Irish Examiner, July 23), from Inistige, Co. Kilkenny, to Lombardstown, Co. Cork, and throughout Ireland, there are hundreds of post offices offering many services to their communities.

While I agree with Frank Copeland (Letters, Irish Examiner, July 23) about the “dilapidated condition of some vacant commercial buildings” in Cobh, I don’t know where he saw “the endless tide of rubbish”.

The proposed government policy to cap the tax take from property construction projects at a time when property values are rising countrywide at a rate far exceeding inflation is misguided and truly alarming.

The recently published 2014 report of Registrar General, Kieran Feely, relies on speculation about ‘marriages of convenience’ based on unattributed ‘anecdotal evidence’ — as near to an oxymoron as one will get — for concluding that because civil marriages are increasing they are partly accounted for by marriages of convenience.

The MacGill Summer School is nothing more than a ‘talking shop’ or junket for ‘has beens’ or ‘wannabes’. It offers nothing constructive to help solve problems of this country.

There is excitement throughout the bird world because of a large concert in Ireland for our feathered friends.

Rather than cull the gulls, why not clean the streets?

The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, rather appropriately, is sometimes referred to as the ‘toxic bank’.

As members of the Government prepare to relax for their annual summer break, for the vast majority of adopted children in Ireland, the luxury of relaxation will never be afforded to them until they know the truth of their existence.