By Pat Brosnan

‘FF grassroots wither and die, says the headline over Pat Brosnan’s column (Irish Examiner, May 13).

PAT BROSNAN (Irish Examiner, February 11) went out of his way to blame Transport Minister Martin Cullen for acceding to the airlines’ requests to do without an air bridge in Cork airport.

IT should be compulsory for the Minister for Transport, our politicians and Cork airport management to read, heed and act upon the commonsense advice in Pat Brosnan’s column (Irish Examiner, February 11).

TWO columnists on this page recently went into the business of prophecy. One was Pat Brosnan, who attacked the initially proposed Government aid for tsunami victims as ‘paltry’, ‘risible’ and ‘peanuts’ and added the prophecy that by the time readers would see his column in the newspaper, the Government might have increased the sum offered.

Most of the country's health boards have yet to appoint case officers to deal with the 20,000 elderly people believed to be victims of abuse, writes Pat Brosnan.

I WISH to compliment Pat Brosnan for his comprehensive report (Irish Examiner, July 12) of a meeting of Cork County Council where members were unanimous in calling for a radical streamlining of the planning process.

Deplorable school buildings could cost the Government at elections, write Eoin English, Sean O’Riordan and Pat Brosnan.

I AM writing in response to the column by Pat Brosnan titled “Democracy incinerated in pursuit of something called common good” in which he expresses his opinion that democracy was poorly served when An Bord Pleanála gave permission to Indaver Ireland to construct a chemical incinerator at Ringaskiddy in spite of community objections.

IF Pat Brosnan had researched his thinly veiled allegation (Irish Examiner, Dec 19) that George W Bush was directly responsible for 152 Texas death row executions during his tenure as state governor, he might have uncovered a fact that would have inconvenienced his entire argument.

IN response to Pat Brosnan (Irish Examiner, Dec 12) I have a few comments from the American ‘Irish’ point of view.

MURT FLYNN (Irish Examiner letters, Nov 6) says it all … he is “tired, tired, tired”... and so did your columnist Pat Brosnan (Irish Examiner, Oct 31)... “we have government by diktat without any consideration for the will of the people… we have been bombarded with policies of startling indifference to the welfare of the people”.

I WAS heartened to read Pat Brosnan’s column (Irish Examiner, Oct 31).

IN his column (Irish Examiner, October 24), Pat Brosnan showed that he does not understand David Trimble’s realpolitik.

PAT BROSNAN (Irish Examiner, August 15) suggests that most people, including > many non-smokers, do not want an outright ban on smoking from January 1. In fact, the last survey to be carried out on this topic showed that most people supported the proposal, including four out of every ten smokers (TNS/MRBI survey published last month showed that 67% support the proposed ban in pubs and restaurants. Support among smokers was 40%).

I WOULD like to expand on a number of issues raised in Pat Brosnan’s article about vegetable oil-powered vehicles (Irish Examiner, June 19).

PAT BROSNAN'S article on Cork as City of Culture 2005 (Irish Examiner, June 18) highlighted, for me at least, two things: the necessity of much more money from the Government and business community for the occasion, and the importance of using most of that to clean and upgrade the entire city.

By Pat Brosnan

NURSES’ representatives at a Limerick psychiatric hospital claim patients are living in Dickensian accommodation while health board staff occupy plush offices.

PAT Brosnan, in his column entitled ‘Coalition of Chancers Evading Responsibilities’ (Irish Examiner, Nov. 22), says: “The PDs could possibly get off on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Alzheimers presumably is a condition which can reduce or void culpability.”

CONGRATULATIONS to Pat Brosnan on his excellent column on our tax-favoured bloodstock industry (Irish Examiner, Nov 15).

I read with scarcely little incredulity, the report of Pat Brosnan (Irish Examiner, July 12) concerning the situation at the new Cóbh garda station, where a picture of the Sacred Heart was ordered to be removed by the OPW , for fear of causing offence to the "multi-cultural community" (sic).