ALMOST half of all prisoners go back to jail within four years of being released and 75% end up re-offending at some stage. This is proof that the Irish prison system is now operating on a revolving door basis.

I AGREE with Environment Minister Dick Roche that sea eagles will be of great benefit to tourism in the south-west.

ALTHOUGH the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has said the Wylfa nuclear power station, located just 60 miles from Ireland, will not have its operating life extended beyond 2010, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plan to put nuclear power back on the agenda may give rise to a new generation of stations on the other side of the Irish Sea.

IT is a tragedy that Vernon Mount House in Cork has been allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair over many years.

I TAKE grave exception to Ann McElhinney’s article in which she sought to portray all inter-country adoptions as wrong and immoral, and the children of such adoptions as victims (Irish Examiner, April 15).