Archive for the ‘Letters to the Editor’ Category
Concern for our beautiful coastline
Many of your readers will remember my letter published in The Munster Express on February 22nd of this year, appealing to all of your readers who visit, and love Garrarus as much as I do, to please object to the massive housing estate and golf course development being planned for my beautiful Garrarus.
Author Joseph Quaney
In connection with a book I am writing, I am anxious to get in touch with the descendants of Joseph Quaney, author of “A Penny to Nelson’s Pillar.”
Alternatives to golf at Garrarus
Regarding Islandikane’s revised plan for our southern coastline which is on display at the County Council offices in Tramore, it is mentioned in a number of places (pages 3, 4 and 
that any visual impact from a southerly vantage point is minimal.
that any visual impact from a southerly vantage point is minimal. Ballonists won’t forget people’s help and hospitality
As you know the Irish Hot Air Ballooning championships here from September 21st to 26th.
Gottfried Helnwein Exhibition
When I recently walked through Waterford City Centre and saw a giant poster of a Gottfried Helnwein painting of a young girl’s head with blood oozing out and a sinister cartoon figure beside her my first reaction was, shock.
Waterford Council of Trade Unions
The Waterford Council of Trade Unions has either misunderstood or deliberately chosen to mis-represent and take out of context my assertion.
We must not forget the people of Darfur
On a Monday morning earlier this month Sudanese helicopters and a column of 120 armoured vehicles descended upon two villages in Northern Darfur, shattering the early morning peace.
Bridge over the Suir
The new By Pass Bridge over the Suir offers Ireland and Waterford a great opportunity to honour one world’s best known engineers, Robert Manning (1816-1897), in his native city of Waterford.
Church eulogies must be our choice
I am very disappointed to hear the church is trying to get rid of Eulogies at funeral Masses when we lose a loved one.
‘Lack of consultation’ accusation
I refer to Tom Young’s article “Eircom Answers ‘lack of consultation’ Accusation” in “The Munster Express” (5/Sept/2008).