I AGREE with the sentiments expressed by Roderick D O’Sullivan (Letters, May 31) that the poisoning of reintroduced eagles by errant farmers is an odious environmental crime and needs to stop.

IRELAND’S forestry authorities continue surreptitiously to carry out policies that have been disgraced and abandoned throughout the civilised world.

BRITAIN’S Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is reported to have informed the authorities that the banned, cancer-causing insecticide, Malachite Green, has been found in Irish ‘organic’ farmed salmon.