David Whitehead (Letters, Jan 13) asserts that Clare County Council has banned the natural gas extraction method called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking“ in response to a vocal minority of protesters.

WITH the nights getting shorter, racing started at 6.25pm at RCYC this week. Race officers Stephen and Rebecca O’Shaughnessy with Jonathan Horgan sent the fleets out into a light south-easterly breeze on Course 93 up to No 3, then a dead run back to Cage, before a reach down to No 12 and then a beat back to Corkbeg where the wind shadow of Ft Carlisle created a few problems rounding the mark.

AS Cork Week enters its finale today, the traditional programme of races has been altered by yesterday’s near gale conditions off Roche’s Point.

YOUR report headlined ‘FG calls on Government to increase gas storage’ (April 14) quotes a spokesman for the Department of Energy as saying “the development of the Corrib Gas field would also provide a new source of gas supply which could meet up to 60% of our annual demand in its early years of operation”.

A TODDLER was crushed to death when he was thrown from a six-tonne dumper truck being driven by his father.

I WAS pleased to see the letter (June 25) by Brendan Kelly on our massive monoculture plantations of Sitka spruce. Much of the countryside, notably in west Cork, has been visibly and invisibly ruined by these dark and gloomy forests, almost devoid of wildlife.

A Wicklow businessman has been fined €1m for putting the drinking water in Blessington at risk of contamination by illegally dumping dry industrial waste.

A Wicklow businessman has been fined €1m for putting the drinking water in Blessington at risk of contamination by illegally dumping dry industrial waste on a site there.

Cork 2-11 Tipperary 2-11 (after extra-time)

SERIOUS racing continues at the various venues along the coast and the latest word from Commodore Jim Donegan is that the South Coast Offshore Racing Association SCORA Class 1 Championship is set for Crosshaven or the weekend of September 13-14, with the Class 2 Championship taking place at Kinsale on the same two days.

Kiskeam 0-19 Adrigole 0-9

YET again violent storms forced the cancellation of all racing in Cork harbour’s and so far three races have been held in the Glaxo SmithKline Beecham Winter Series from the Royal Cork with the final race coming up on Sunday.

OLYMPIC sailor Mark Mansfield burst into the Glaxo SmithKline winter series at the Royal Cork YC and showed a clean stern to the twenty-three boat fleet in the second race of the event.

DESPITE light and variable winds and early tides, 85 boats raced in the Cove SC John McCarthy Motorpoint annual race from Cobh to Blackrock village on the outskirts of Cork City.

GLORIOUS autumnal conditions favoured the Royal Cork Offshore Day and, in a light to moderate south easterly breeze Class One sailed around the Cork Buoy, down to the Bullman Buoy off Kinsale and back to the finish at Roches Point.