A cluster of girls jumped around a uniformed garda. “We were on the telly,” they all shouted together and bounced away, running up to the tape cordoning off the latest gangland murder.

I WAS disgusted to read (Irish Examiner, June 3) that a bathing spot in Youghal, Co Cork, has been closed to the public because a pathway to the area is in disrepair and could cause people to trip. Well, fix it.

YOUNG people need to find other ways of resolving rows rather than using knives, a youth worker and local politician said yesterday.

Gardai in Dublin are investigating a suspected petrol bomb attack in Tallaght