Your article on the problems of Cork Airport (Irish Examiner, October 31) cuts little sympathy with my UK-based daughter. 

WRITING as one of Fergus Finlay’s “people without an education” who emigrated to the UK in the early ‘60s, I found his well-meaning but rather smug column on immigration (Irish Examiner, February 15) lacking in any real understanding of what life was like then, and still is, for many driven by economic circumstances to leave home to seek employment elsewhere.