I WISH to make a comment with regard to your article on January 6 (Drink driving laws ‘increase suicides’).

I SEE that Clare County Council, in response to a vocal minority of protestors, has decided to amend its county plan to ban the practise of “fracking” within its jurisdiction.

IN her column Colette Browne (Opinion, dec 21) attacked the Limerick Leader for failing to follow the lead of four national newspapers, the Irish Examiner included, by publishing the names and addresses of 21 men who appeared at Limerick District Court as a result of a garda operation targeting the soliciting of prostitutes.

THE comments by the Vintners’ Association deserve intelligent debate.

THE most revealing aspect of the media coverage of the Rachel Allen pheasant controversy is how little notice the media generally takes of where the bulk of our meat comes from — ie, from factory farms.

MARY Raftery was a remarkable person. She shone a light into the hidden past of Ireland, exposing the horrors of the industrial schools and laying bare a crime against humanity for long covered up and denied.

IT was with great sadness I heard of the death of Mary Raftery — what a great loss to this world.

IT seems that Leinster House is some sort of a dust-free zone because Enda Kenny promised the Moriarty Report on the granting of the mobile phone licence involving Lowry and O’Brien would not sit on a shelf gathering dust, but no action has been taken by the Government.

OVER the Christmas period there has have been a number of deaths caused by drug-taking youths.

RESPONDING to Pamela O’Leary (Letters, Jan 7), she urges parents to speak up before it is too late and Minister Quinn has his way and removes the compulsory allocation of guidance counsellors in schools and colleges around the country.