There are very few areas where the instinct to be compassionate, the obligation to be supportive, inclusive and humane are as compromised as at the interface of the rights and expectations of much of society — the settled community — and the rights and expectations of Travellers.

A local man has claimed the basis of a planning approval for a multi-million Euro wind farm project in Co Mayo means substantially less financial compensation for the local community.

I SEE that Clare County Council, in response to a vocal minority of protestors, has decided to amend its county plan to ban the practise of “fracking” within its jurisdiction.

IN his letter (September 23), Michael Job asks if someone would explain what the Corrib gas pipeline protest is about, and refers to these people as NIMBYS who “want to go back to a medieval existence”.

I WISH to comment on the refusal by An Bord Pleanála to allow a power station to be built at Little Island in Cork harbour.