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I REFER to the insulting letter headlined ‘Profiteers and puritans ruining the Republic’ from Chris Clegg of Lancashire (Irish Examiner, August 7).

READING the news in the Examiner that the police have been allowed to impose a 9pm curfew on outside drinkers in Cork City has finally decided the issue for me - I am boycotting the Irish Republic for the foreseeable future.