I WOULD like to respond to the “meat matters” piece in your recent Property supplement in which Friends of the Earth ask people to eat less meat.

WITH regard to the report headlined ‘ICTU defers abortion motion’ (July 9), I am at a loss to see why such a motion was proposed in the first place and am very glad it was thrown out.

IN his letter (July 7), Brian McDermott refers to the comments by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan as to the causes of the present economic difficulties arising to the greatest extent from the low interest rates and the influx of cheap labour from eastern Europe, going on then to say “...we need to retain and regain as much power in Ireland as possible to get us out of this sorry mess”.