AT THE start of 2011 and in the run-up to the general election, Fine Gael TD Jerry Buttimer for Cork South Central assured me that we would not have property taxes and even pointed to the Fine Gael manifesto that stated we would have water tax and not property tax.

THANK you for highlighting the waiting times for audiology services in Cork (May 5). My daughter Lucy, aged 2, was referred to the audiology services based in North Main Street in July ‘08 after failing three hearing tests.

FEW sights can match the feelings of reverence and respect evoked by a funeral hearse.

I WAS amazed to find that in the Cork City Council estimates for ‘05 there were only 8,000 entrants to Douglas swimming pool last year. This is incorrect. Our club, Sundays Well, pays the council approx. €80,000 per annum for use of the pool.