All aspects of life touched upon in 175 years of letters from our readers

Today marks 175 years since the Irish Examiner, then known as the Cork Examiner, was first published.

Thousands of letters have been published since that first newspaper appeared on August 30, 1841.

A small selection of those letters are reproduced below and are taken from a special supplement which is being published with today's Irish Examiner print edition to mark this latest milestone in our history.