A North Cork man caught with more than €16,000 worth of cannabis told investigating detectives he had the drugs to offer them as bribes to gardaí if he was caught speeding.

THE 1997 Fianna Fáíl election manifesto stated: "Crime in Ireland has become dramatically worse ... Organised crime has emerged as a vicious reality in Irish society. Crime threatens us on our streets in our homes and in our businesses."

HAVING given a mere 60 seconds to mourn the tsunami victims and a firm two fingers to those crippled by Third World debt, is anyone surprised that our Government has insulted the memory of John Paul II for economic gain?

THE blinkered and cynical views expressed by Danny Morrison (Irish Examiner, August 11), if shared by the wider republican movement, do not bode well for the chances of a successful outcome to the review of the Good Friday agreement.

IN your New Year’s Day edition there was a photograph which purported to show Liam Cosgrave’s Fine Gael/Labour government receiving their seals of office from President de Valera in 1973.