The Port of Cork intends applying to An Bord Pleanala, yet again, for a 400,000-capacity container terminal at Ringaskiddy.

We need more emphasis on spoken Gaelic and we need more opportunities to use our native language, without any pressure or ‘compulsion’ towards perfect grammar.

Chloe Callaghan, the ISPCC anti-bullying spokesperson, is an inspiration.

Your excellent opinion piece, ‘The Plight of the Elderly — We Need a Caring Government’ (Irish Examiner, February 25), is all the more galling when the Government is not only uncaring, but willfully parting with billions of euro in natural resources, sold to unelected private enterprises.

How touching it is to see the ‘major Cabinet figures’ circling the wagons to protect the Minister for Justice and Defence, Alan Shatter, from the slings and arrows of those outrageous Indians outside The Pale.

The Irish language protests in Connemara last weekend were a damp squib.

Regarding the ‘so-called’ Garda whistleblower saga, and putting politics aside, it was with astonishment that I watched Garda Assistant Commissioner John O’Mahoney, the officer who was tasked by Commissioner Martin Callinan to investigate the complaint made to the confidential recipient in April 2012, say to the Public Account’s Committee on January 23 that he did not feel that it was necessary to interview either of the members, because the complaint was ‘anonymous’.

The excellent reporting by Michael Clifford on the whistleblowers, GSOC, and the Justice department is completely overlooked by the coalition Government.

There are thousands of excellent Gardaí, like Maurice McCabe and John Wilson.

Come on, where does the corruption stop — €240,000 plus 6pc pension plan for the top person in Rehab?