Raymond Kearney’s comments last Friday (Irish Examiner, June 11), in respect of the development of tourism in Ireland, raise a number of issues.

SIMON COVENEY’S decision to leave Brussels less than two years after seeking election to the European Parliament shows Fine Gael has a flip-flop attitude to Europe.

IMAGINE my surprise on learning from the Irish Examiner (February 19), that the giant US conglomerate, Cardinal Health, a company of 50,000 employees in 22 countries on five continents, indicated their intention to set up a plant in Longford back in December 2000 just to get me elected to Dáil Éireann in May 2002.