JOSEF FINKE’S misleading letter on genetically modified (GM) food gives the false impression that “keeping Ireland a GM-free country” was something protected by the Green party (Feb 17).

A CHARA, an t-Uasal Kenny, “Más beo do bheo dá néis, Na gaid go léir a scaoileadh, Is nach corpán ar do chosa thú, Iontach liom mar éacht é.”

FINE GAEL, Labour and Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin councillors gave planning permissions for thousands of ghost estates, zombie hotels and hundreds of thousands of unfinished and empty houses around the country.

FOREMOST in the minds of politicians and voters alike is Ireland’s prospects for economic recovery, and the means by which to best effect this.

IS IT my imagination or has Brian Cowen really vanished from the face of the earth since the beginning of the election campaign?

ONE of the most disturbing and despicable aspects of the present general campaign is the total moral and intellectual cowardice of the media, politicians and the various churches with regard to Sinn Féin.

THE morning after pill is now freely available while nursing and midwife students, largely women, are now to be unpaid for work experience.

AS 30,000 objectors in Cork, along with their democratically elected county council, near the tenth anniversary of their struggle against toxic incineration in Cork Harbour, we are alarmed to find no mention of incineration in the Fine Gael manifesto.

IN view of the complications arising from current property taxes it may be appropriate to consider one of the earliest forms of tax which was current in the 18th century.

IT looks as if 27% of voters in Cork South Central have not been remotely affected by the recession.