HAVING read your front page story and inside article of your newspaper (August 16) in relation to the proposed speed limit plan by Cork Corporation, it strikes me as a wonderful decision.

IF recent European developments did not have such serious ramifications for most of us, Fine Gael’s absence would bring a smug smile to my face.

IN his article on the London riots Fergus Finlay (Opinion, August 16) makes accusations against other ‘opinion formers’, John Waters and Kevin Myers, that could more accurately be directed against Mr Finlay himself.

WHAT a refreshing change to read Cathal Garvey’s article Fathers Being Pushed into the Background (Irish Examiner, August 7).

IT IS difficult to understand precisely what Steven King (Opinion, August 17) is on about when he suggests that “small groups on this island” might take from the recent riots in England that the “British state has given up defending itself”.

THE frightening scenes in English cities are rooted in many years of decay in God-given values in society.

ALARM bells have sounded in England, the breakdown of law and order.

WITH regards to the Catholic Church today I have noticed for a while now going to Mass that the priests never seem to speak out about all the ills in society today.

LEAVING aside all the moralising on broken homes leading to yob culture, as evidenced in the rioting and looting in England last week, there are as just as many damaged children who come from “respectable stable marriages” as from one active parent families.

ADAM D’ARCY from the Cork Cycling Campaign (Letters, August 16) commendably calls for “safer interaction between cyclists and car drivers”.