When eminent emergency consultant Stephen Cusack describes the streets of Cork as being like the “last days of Sodom and Gomorrah” (Irish Examiner, Sept 29), it scarcely leaves anything to the imagination with regard to the “success” of Diageo’s day of disaster.

I won’t be purchasing a Saorview box.

I empathise with your columnist Victoria White, (Opinion, Sept 13,) especially on the matter of keeping silent on the subject of child abuse.

This Government’s decision to renege on their programme for government policy to allow commercial tenants market rents, was the worst economic decision since the bank guarantee.

I am writing about the issue of obesity in Ireland.

I will be voting no in the upcoming children’s referendum and the reason is quite simple.

Abortion has been widely debated in Ireland for at least three decades and the subject of three referenda.

Roisin Shortall was totally unrealistic in her disagreement over spending cuts with the Minister for Health and completely misjudged the role of a minister for state.

Regarding Victoria White’s column “Site value tax would be better and fairer option than a property tax”, (Sept 27), I agree with everything except one point.

Some famous man once said that if you wanted evidence for getting rid of democracy all you had to do was talk to the average voter for five minutes.