I am writing to you on behalf of Mount Mercy College girls’ school in Cork about the murder of Mariora Rostas and the lack of disgust and uproar after her gruesome treatment and death under Ireland’s gangland criminals.

A food importer intentionally mislabelled his produce in order to evade an import duty which he is in the process of repaying.

THE recent request by AIB to the Department of Finance to have the salary cap removed for their new CEO is infuriating.

A NEGLECTED facet of the Nyberg report has been the part played by the Irish media in inflating the bubble economy.

I HOPE our politicians will excuse me as a humble self-employed person for breaking down their horrifying figures into something more understandable? For the past 29 years I had to do weekly balance sheets to ensure I was not living beyond my means.

YOUR political correspondent Shaun Connolly (March 24) finds the cabinet reshuffle to be “not so much the Night of the Long Knives, more like the Night of the Living Dead”.

I WISH to offer my support to Veritas in their efforts to air Christmas advertising on RTÉ.

I WAS amused recently to read of Cork county politicians calling for 110 jobs to be moved from Model Farm Road in the city to Macroom under the guise of the so-called Government decentralisation scheme.

A TREATY is a signed contract between states. Where are the signatures of the other EU states to the Lisbon treaty? Where is the democracy? Why should Ireland be the only state to vote at this time?

AS a nation we are prone to addiction. We have long struggled with our dependence on alcohol and all of the ills it has wreaked upon our society.

I FIND it most encouraging that the GAA and Cork City Council are seeking to develop Páirc Uí Chaoimh into a 60,000-seater stadium (Irish Examiner, October 17).

I FOUND your feature on ‘Stem cells simplified’ (June 6) most interesting.

AFTER watching the recent programme about junior doctors on RTÉ, I was surprised how badly they are trained and treated in our hospitals.

A COMPASSIONATE electorate has voted no to the imposition of abortion in three referenda. It is difficult to understand why Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin now plans to vote yes to funding embryonic stem cell research at the EU council of ministers.

THERE must be an election coming as the silly season of ‘mature recollection’ is upon us again.

SOME counter-balance is needed to the recent populist clamourings of certain football personalities for diverting a slice of Croke Park revenues to players on the more successful teams.

REFER to Barry Horgan’s feature on diminishing oil resources (‘Oil gone,’ Irish Examiner, October 4).

AS we are only weeks away from negotiations crucial to the peace process, it’s time for some hard decisions.

AN ‘accident waiting to happen’ is a well-worn cliché. Nevertheless, many accidents are inevitable and occur on roundabouts because drivers using mobile phones are unable to give proper signals.