IN RESPONSE to your report on the domestic violence code (December 3), I would like to clarify that the South East Domestic Violence Intervention Programme is not funded by the Community Development Programme, but by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform through the new government office, Cosc.

THE €8.7 billion provision for the agriculture and food sector in the National Development Plan 2007-2013 will benefit consumers as well as farmers.

IN introducing an item on domestic violence on the Late Late Show on 20 October, Pat Kenny began by stating that “as many men suffer physical abuse at the hands of their wives and partners as women.”

A code of practice on domestic violence was launched today to guide voluntary groups in dealing with the problem within communities.

JUNIOR Minister Willie O’Dea has criticised the national media’s portrayal of Limerick as an “Irish Beirut”.