Joseph McGinley of Davy Stockbrokers advised in your paper (Irish Examiner, Feb 5) that wind energy is destabilising the Irish grid.

Cork TD and Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, says that the protests against the Grid 25 programme will give Ireland a bad name. The plan is for 5,000km of cables, including pylons and 7,000 wind turbines.

In this state we have a total conventional fossil fuel and river hydro electricity generating capacity of 6,200 megawatts (mw).

Local London residents have started up a petition to curtail filming on Guy Ritchie's new movie 'Sherlock Holmes' after the filmmaker ordered them to move their cars so he could shoot scenes.