Perhaps we should look to other countries for alternative solutions for managing our water and waste services? My sister told me how it was done in India in the 1970s (she was there for 10 months). Pigs on the streets ate the organic human waste they found.

When Ben Dunne opened his first store on St. Patrick Street Cork, he ensured many items, in particular children’s clothing was brought within affordable reach of many people.

I read the article by Anne Ferris TD “Referendum is about respect for different family units” (Irish Examiner, April 6) . Obviously her opinions are influenced by her own experiences as a teenager.

Victoria While (Irish Examiner, April 2) believes Ibrahim Halawa to be an “innocent” Irishman. Halawa, while visiting relations in Cairo, allegedly took part in anti-government demonstrations.

Who is Frank Flannery kidding? He speaks about a re-elected government giving fair play to the people, when he himself refused to speak to the people through the Public Accounts Committee. 

The tremendous response to the Team Limerick Clean Up is evidence of the importance that the city’s citizens attach to a clean environment. As Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) surveys show, our cities are more littered than our towns.

Easter and once again it is time to have a go at the teaching profession. What’s new? In fairness, your editorial of April 7 admits that the education system in Ireland has suffered from cutbacks, increasing class size, etc.

With reference to your article (Irish Examiner, April 6 ) on the development and promotion of Cork, it is not just developers and the Port of Cork who have expectations for the future.

The discovery by Iraqi forensic teams “of mass graves believed to contain some of the soldiers killed by Islamic State (IS) militants last year” (Irish Examiner, 7 April), is, I fear, merely the first in a cycle of IS atrocities as it retreats.

Your editorial “Obama on Iran nuclear deal - A very sobering lesson for Israel” (April 6) creates the false impression that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is the only critic of the Iran nuclear “framework”.