IN response to Jacqueline Cotter’s letter suggesting a national no-alcohol day (August 5), I would respectfully point out that we already have two — Good Friday and Christmas Day.

IT was sad to see Fr Con McGillicuddy (Letters, September 17) taking such ridicule from some letter-writers.

I APPLIED for two passports at a post office in Dungarvan where I was told that for an extra fee of €12, I would have them returned in 10 working days.

THERE’S a pre-Christmas cracker in the offing for hurling followers at Páirc Ui Rinn tomorrow (3.30pm) when Erin’s Own and Douglas battle it our for the right to be crowned Evening Echo Cork Co U-21 champions.

THE curtain falls today on the first half of colleges activity for the season, with some finals down for decision.

HOW dare John Fitzgerald suggest that knife-wielding thugs and drug addicts should be conscripted into the armed forces (Irish Examiner letters, October 31).

IN the Irish Examiner of January 22 you say that the millennium needle is twice the height of Ireland’s tallest building, Liberty Hall.

I DISAGREE with Cal Hyland (Irish Examiner letters, Nov 11) when he says that Irish roads are among the worst in the developed world.