I wish to refer to the programme Creedon’s Cities which was screened on RTÉ One on Sunday, Oct 27 which featured the city of Cork.

The latest radio listenership figures prove that RTÉ need not pander to their top hosts’ wage demands.

It is very hard to believe, shocking, shameful and totally unacceptable that no safety helmets were worn at the World Boxing Championships in Kazakhstan.

Michael Clifford (Opinion, Nov 4) expounds freely (and accurately) on the debilitating legacy that haunts the ‘bould Bertie, long after his deserved demise in a whirlpool of shame.

Congratulations to the Irish Examiner and journalist Michael Clifford (Oct 28) in highlighting the injustice meted out to Johnny Duhan over a 12-year period and the courage of the singer/songwriter in fighting the Irish legal system.

Your article on privacy highlighted the fact that mass electronic surveillance of personal data, by people in a position to do so, is part of the age we live in.

Enda Kenny promised us 100,000 jobs in the first 12 months — if elected. Over 400,000 people are still queuing for those jobs every day.

I’m writing from the Irish Pastoral Centre (IPC) in Boston, MA where I am a social worker to the Irish community.

Once again politicians have demonstrated nepotism/cronyism by exempting senior civil servants/judiciary from the pension levy on Jan 1, 2014.

What a brilliant, concise and accurate description your reader Desmond Fitzgerald (Letters, Nov 1) gave of the negative legacy of past Fianna Fáil governments and of Charles Haughey in particular in his letter “O’Rourke’s concern is misplaced” re the upcoming TV drama on Mr Haughey’s life.