ON behalf of the Cobh Branch of the World Ship Society which held the 64th AGM of the Society last weekend, I would like to thank everybody who helped make it such a special weekend. Delegates came from Britain, Germany and even as far flung as Tasmania.

AS Jason Fitzharris (May 17) and myself are in agreement that targeting the pension savings of workers (public or private) is unjust, I am sure that he won’t mind if I correct some of his small omissions.

THE royal visit is not the way to improve UK/Eire relations.

I HAVE just been watching the BBC coverage of Queen Elizabeth II landing in Dublin and her arrival at Áras an Uachtarain and I can’t believe how upset I was.

AS a proud native of the west of Ireland and now resident in Belfast, I thought I would be indifferent to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Republic.

REVELATIONS about the NCT car test on Monday night’s Primetime investigation were deeply disturbing, but hardly surprising giving that major concerns have been voiced about the test from the very outset of its introduction.

I AM the managing director of an independent, family-run financial planning firm in Cork.

OVER the last 10-12 weeks I have been clocking up the miles running across various areas in the city, in preparation for the Cork City Marathon on June 6.

THE general consensus seems to be that Dominique Strauss Khan’s political career is over regardless whether the allegations against him eventually hold up in court.