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Stephen Cadogan reports on complex legal cases evolving from disputes over the Basic Payment Scheme.

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

As a campaigner myself against injustice worldwide, I would like to pay tribute to the Ballyhea campaigners near Charleville, Co Cork, who for the past five years have marched every week to have their voices heard against the European bank debt imposed on the Irish people.

History was made in Cork South West with the election of the constituency’s first female TD, with Margaret Murphy O’Mahony’s win also matching the national pattern of a resurgent Fianna Fáil vote.

After topping the poll in the local election, Michael Collins is looking to the Dáil, writes Noel Baker

Kinsale public toilets are closed for most of the year and the superloo is mostly out of service. This superloo costs a fortune to run and is a white elephant.

Noel Harrington (Irish Examiner, November 10 ) raises the question of the Catholic Church making a significant contribution to the matter of homelessness and wonders about its silence on the issue.

The silence of the Catholic church on homelessness is mindblowing. Land is needed to build modular homes to house people and one of the largest landowners in this country is the Catholic Church.

Best known for her role as Mary Kate Danaher in The Quiet Man, the late actress, Maureen O’Hara, was Ireland’s first Hollywood screen legend and was accepted into the Abbey theatre at the age of 14.

I feel I must condemn Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s attack on Sinn Féin at Bodenstown on Sunday during which he called them the “Mafia”.

Something must be done about the blood-thirsty evil of ISIS and these religious wars between Muslims and Christians.

The 2011 census revealed we have 289, 451 vacant properties and of these 59,395 were classed as holiday homes.

While I welcome the bailout of €500m for farmers, what about our fishing industry, which is in slow decline and does not have a level playing field, because of foreign boats?

Noel Harrington (Irish Examiner, Letters, August 18) commendably calls for the return to Ireland of the remains of the Manchester Martyrs executed in 1867.

Would it not be great to have the remains of the Manchester Martyrs brought back to Ireland?

In response to Noel Harrington’s letter on Aug 5, which justified the 1916 Rising on the basis that Redmond’s Home Rule project was defunct after the rearrangement of the British Government into a National Coalition in 1915, it is an often-heard argument which is totally untrue.

The legacy of Pearse’s oration at the graveside of O’Donovan Rossa was very fitting for the occasion and shows up the shallowness of contemporary Redmondism.

A massive expansion plan for the country’s premier whitefish port will have a significant economic impact on the fishing sector in the West Cork region, Deputy Noel Harrington believes.

I wish to support the postmasters’ recent appeal to withdraw from circulation new social protection forms which recommend payment through banks, and discourage use of post offices.

After watching the documentary, Collusion, on BBC on Monday night, and after reading Ann Cadwalladar’s book, I am struggling to understand how innocent people could have been murdered with the support of the British establishment. Why was nothing done in the South?

Four houses a day are being repossessed by the banks; the banks that we, the taxpayers, bailed out.