SHORTLY after he was appointed Minister for the Environment in 2007, Green Party Leader John Gormley jetted off to Bali for a conference on global warming.

RECENTLY I emailed councillors to encourage them to put pressure on city and county managers to enforce the litter laws as far as illegal advertising signs erected by businesses are concerned.

THE recession has not prevented Cork city councillors from planning junkets at the taxpayers’ expense.

IN his letter (January 24), Seamus Ó Niadh tries to understate the significance of clerical sex abuse of children by claiming these only represent 3% or 4% of child abuse cases.

IN recent years, most towns in Munster have gone to great effort and expense to erect Christmas decorations.