IT has become all too clear the broadband quality in this county is seriously deficient and requires government intervention.

WHILE I do applaud and encourage the right of ordinary citizens to protest against any form of injustice, I do have an issue with the people who have encamped at the top of the South Mall in Cork.

TWO separate reports in the Irish Examiner on the closure of rural garda stations and the curtailment in garda patrol cars will set alarm bells ringing in many rural parts of the country, including east Cork.

IF I deliberately wanted to hurt the poorest in our society I can think of no better way to do it than by hitting the price of coal.

I AM writing this letter to Santa because I voted for a brand new Fine Gael TD last spring as FG promised to deliver more than you.

ONLY 2,000 at the protest — how come a lot of people didn’t know about the protest march?

HOW many millions would the Government save by benchmarking the salaries of our public servants to our European counterparts?

PROTEST marches like the recent one in Dublin against further austerity measures in the next budget have their place, but we can march ‘till the cows come home for all the good it will do in terms of influencing government thinking.

IN her letter Nadiyah Kahild (Nov 28) claims parties are male-dominated and so “regardless of how capable women are, they have a far lesser chance of being selected as a candidate by a party.”

IT was refreshing to read Linda Kelly’s article on Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey (Features, Nov 25)) recently.