WITH all the recent complaints from taxi drivers over the issuing of licences and regulation, perhaps it is time to examine the quality of service we receive.

I CANNOT profess to being a fan of our Taoiseach or the Fianna Fáil Party, nor would I ever vote that way.

WHATEVER happened to the nation’s tried and trusted friend — the national loan — as a means of providing funds for infrastructural development while at the same time creating a secure investment opportunity bearing a reasonable return to subscribers?

WHAT a pity there isn’t a Barack Obama in Ireland.

IF it were not so horribly sad, I would have laughed out loud when I read the letter (June 13) from American Joyce Anderson Gleasure about President Bush and US Middle East policy.

IN his letter (April 29), Tom Cooper suggests we the people of Cork should have shunned the Rev Ian Paisley on his recent visit Cobh.

ON a recent train journey I overheard a young man saying, “Diabetics have no one to blame but themselves for being sick. It’s their own fault for being fat.”

YOUR editorial on the Government’s somersault on Cork Airport funding was very much to the point, but did not go far enough (Irish Examiner, February 21).