As regards an article in the Irish Examiner about the condition of Macroom garda station, during my late husband’s service in the Garda Siochana, I lived in the married quarters of two garda stations, for a total of ten years.

I worked for 15 years as a Community Employment (CE) scheme supervisor and I knew many supervisors who retired at 66 and were left with just the state pension while the managers in Fás walked away with large pensions and, I imagine, lump sums.

I worked for 15 years as a Community Employment (CE) scheme supervisor and I knew many supervisors who retired at 66 and were left with just the state pension while the managers in Fás walked away with large pensions and, I imagine, lump sums.

THE death last weekend of Sean Healy, the first general secretary of what is now the 86,000-member Irish Farmers Association, was noted with great regret by thousands of farmers countrywide.