NEXT Saturday may not change our view of the English one way or another, but it should profoundly change our view of ourselves.

THE Garda Reserve will never catch on.

PERHAPS Sean Ó Mochóir (Irish Examiner letters, February 2) should have asked: have the dogs come to boxing?

NOW tell me this: is Irish boxing gone to the dogs?

ANY chance the Irish Catholic Church might shed its obsession with the goings-on in the bedroom and take a peep into the boardroom?

WE need someone in there to keep an eye on him.

IF the Government doesn’t know what it’s doing and has no problem wasting millions on consultants as a result, perhaps they should now consult with the people whose money they’ve so scandalously wasted.

TO hell with Big Oil.

I WAS relieved to read Sheila Griffin’s letter headlined ‘What’s wrong with pensioners having to contribute towards their care’ (Irish Examiner, August 22).

LONGEST day, summer half gone, first butterfly visits my thickly scented garden.

LIES and the lying liars who tell ‘em: “Of course I can’t speak for the IRA.”

WANT a quick conversion from Northern Bank notes to euro?

IN Cork city a few days ago the only sign of ‘European’ culture that I saw was a group of musical acrobats imitating their soul brothers in Brooklyn circa 1985.

FARMERS got very bad advice from the banks when they wanted to invest their savings.

I SEE the farmers are once again well ahead in the tax defaulters’ premier league (Irish Examiner, December 22).

DEAR Santa, please pass over the chimneys of all those winking idiots who have exposed you and the rest of us to the shock/horror effects of their garishly lit houses.

THE new US education secretary is Margaret Spellings.

I NOTED Sean Ó Mochóir’s letter (Irish Examiner, September 4) on our dilemma in Cork in finding a name for our new pedestrian bridge over the Lee at the Coal Quay.

CLIFF RICHARD is reported to have invited Tony Blair to take a break from his foreign and domestic conflicts at his Caribbean island retreat.

AS the Provos needed Paisley, so bin Laden needs Bush.

I AGREE with the sentiments expressed by Tony Moriarty and Sean Ó Mochóir in relation to the anti-Bush protesters at Shannon and elsewhere (Irish Examiner, June 24).

Decentralisation, Cork-style: nearly all the Euro heavy-hitters in Munster are based in or near the ‘second city’.