SOUTH WEST Ireland has the potential to become a world-class walking and nature holiday destination, generating considerable economic rewards. However, there are several factors threatening eco-tourism.

IN response to Catherine O’Brien’s letter regarding the exportation of greyhounds to China I would like to add some facts that the animal rights/welfare organisations seem to neglect.

IN an article in the Irish Examiner I see that the Road Safety Authority (RSA) are looking for the nomination of an individual as Road Safety Ambassador.

“DIARMUID MARTIN said the apostolic visitation appointed to help the Catholic Church in the wake of the clerical sex abuse crisis has completed its work.”

I REFER to an opinion piece published in The Financial Times (April 12) submitted by an ECB official, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, in which he effectively admonishes Irish taxpayers, “Pay Up and Stop Whining”.

I AM sure there was no intention to mislead in the article in a recent edition of the Irish Examiner: “Religious orders must keep their moral and financial commitments”.

REGARDING local government subsidised canteens — this morning I had tea and a very nice scone in the restaurant in Cork’s County Hall.

THE Irish education system is limping from crisis to crisis.

THE silly season has arrived, and already I have a strong feeling that I must have a hearing test carried out, because clearly I am hearing things that cannot possibly be true.

THANK you for publishing: “Cosmonaut urges teens to shoot for the stars,” (April 15).