Letters

Dear Editor, Campervans on the pier at Kinvara are akin to the arrival of the first swallows: they herald the halcyon days of summer. On many occasion I have stopped over to enjoy a meal in The Pier Head or a pizza in the Full Tide Inn and listened to the best of traditional music over a pint in Connelly’s.
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Dear Editor, The Salmon, ‘bradán’ holds a very special place among the Irish in folklore and culture. We have some of the best natural spawning and fishing grounds in Western Europe.
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Dear Editor, Writing in the ‘Irish Times’ this week, Enda Kenny says that, "At the core of the Government’s strategy is the creation of jobs for our people.".  According to the Central Statistics Office, since FG/Labour got into power in March 2011, the labour force has fallen from 2,178,700 (Apr.
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Dear Editor, I would like the opportunity to reply to Mr Donal Maguire, Head of Aquaculture at BIM (Bord Iascaigh Mhara) and refute his claim that sea lice from salmon farms do not adversely affect wild salmon and sea trout.
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A chara, As we know from the former British Labour leader Harold Wilson, a week in politics is a long time. But when is Eamon Gilmore going to coin a similar phrase to encapsulate his party’s political somersault since it made the short walk from the opposition to the government benches? In May 2010, the Labour Party’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Michael D Higgins, with the clear approval of his party leader, spoke out against the presence of Irish military personnel in Afghanistan: “In the interests of the Irish Defence Force’s well-deserved international reputation…it is incumbent upon our government that Ireland act with credibility and
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Dear Editor, The motion to deal with ‘unruly” councillors passed at Galway City Council on Monday 11 February could hit a legal brick wall. This is due to the fact that councillors’ remuneration (pay) is paid for representational work.
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Dear Editor, I am writing on behalf of the Galway Area Council of St Vincent De Paul to express our gratitude to you, the people of Galway, for your continued support throughout the year and, in particular, your generosity during the Annual Appeal at Christmas.
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Dear Editor, In last week's paper, you ran an article about the resignation of Pope Benedict. The article contained a number of quotes from the bishop of Galway, Martin Drennan about how fantastic Benedict's reign has been as well as a couple of others, like our President and then went on to speculate on Benedict’s successor.
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Dear Editor, In last week’s issue (Wednesday 13 February), Mary O’Byrne repeated the mantra of anti-choice campaigners that: ‘abortion is never the appropriate treatment for suicidality’.
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Dear Editor, The publication of the report on the public hearings on abortion of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children makes interesting reading. The submission of St Patrick's University Hospital, Dublin 8, states that 'mental health professions are not able to predict suicide and there is no test or clinical assessment which is either valid or reliable in this area'.
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Dear Editor, On behalf of everyone at GOAL, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who organised and participated in the Galway City GOAL Mile on Christmas Day at Dangan running track. At last count, more than €5,600 had been raised for GOAL’s projects.
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Dear Editor, The word great is bandied around so much in sport these days that it is in danger of becoming meaningless. During the course of this year’s inaugural Grand Slam in Australia one critic opined that the top four players in the world - Djokovic, Federer, Murray and the injured Nadal - were the four greatest tennis players in the history of the game.
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Dear Editor, I refer to the letter from the Socialist Workers Party (Galway Independent, Wednesday 23 January), which called for a woman's right to choose (abortion) to be enshrined in Irish law. This would be a regressive step for Ireland, and would violate the most basic human right: the right to life, of unborn babies and their mothers.
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Dear Editor, On behalf of Paul Kelly, CEO of Console, Cllr Peter Roach and Phyllis MacNamara, ambassadors for Console, and The Friends of Console, we would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the people of Galway City and County for their unfailing support in helping us to continue to provide our services to those who need it in our centre in Elm Park, in Renmore, Galway.
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