YET again we are being told by a different government minister that we are going to have first-class broadband roll out.

AS a new TD who called on the Government to seriously pursue a ban on the advertising of alcoholic drinks recently in Dáil Eireann, I must congratulate you on your supplement on alcohol.

IRELAND, 2011, is a broken society.

I WRITE to express appreciation for your editorial and the Alcohol and Ireland supplement (May 6).

ONE job creation initiative which should be looked at is bringing back bus conductors, particularly in Dublin and Cork.

HAS anyone noticed that people are very quick to criticise the US in the war on terror, yet there is never a word written by them about the victims of 9/11, 7/7, and the other atrocities carried out by al-Qaida?

THE decision by this government not to allow the export of Irish greyhounds to China has, thankfully, spared many hundreds of these gentle creatures an appalling fate.

THE outrageous suggestion has been made that when the copyright expires on our national anthem, it should be altered, edited or dropped altogether.

OUR mother fell and broke her hip on May 5 and was taken to & CUH by ambulance some time before midnight.