TIMMY’S KNOCKOUT

Dear Editor,

Having grown up in Mitchelstown I know every stone there and when I saw the article on The Avondhu of April 2 I thought first it was an ‘April Fool’. For as long as I can remember and needed to use the library it was on the second floor in the building at George’s Street.

I often thought how someone with a disability or a senior citizen got up those stairs to use the library. Some years later I heard that Forrest Hall was mentioned and said to myself, “No! No!”

Timmy you should get a loan of a wheelchair, you can have mine for a few hours. Park at the top of the square and make his way down the hill to Forrest Hall; next trip, park at the bottom of the square and wheel yourself up to Forrest Hall or a third trip, park across the road and try it.

Timmy did you ever think what it costs to make a building accessible? The building is like a warehouse and that is being kind.

When I read in past editions of The Avondhu that Sutton’s Court was being considered I thought, at last the powers that be were making a good move, it would be accessible to all. I would love to see a place for the youth to meet and the boxing club have a place to train. What about the Town Hall?

Youth clubs have been set up in Mitchelstown back through the years but they did not last long. I was told it was always the same people were left to run them and the youth stopped going as they did not want supervision. There is plenty places for youth to meet and many fine clubs for them to join in Mitchelstown. But a youth cafe, a boxing club and library in the same building is a ridiculous suggestion. People that use a library need silence and relaxation to read or study.

Timmy, it would be more in your line to take on board the fact that funding has been curtailed for people with disabilities and our senior citizens to have their houses adapted so they can stay in their homes instead of having to go into care which would cost the State a lot more and putting yet another strain on the taxpayers.

I can see nothing wrong in selling Forrest Hall and the council using the money to at last have a proper library in Mitchelstown for all to use.

Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth Holton Fenton,
Glenarouske,
Fermoy.

ALERT TO PARENTS

Dear Editor,

Sex outside marriage has devastating consequences for women’s health.

Cervical cancer – the vaccine – Before you consider giving permission for your daughters to get the vaccine – Get the facts. (Based on new scientific information published in the past 15 years).

1. It is wrong to describe this expensive vaccine as a “cure” for Cervical Cancer. The vaccine is against a sexually transmitted disease called humanpapilloma virus (HPV), not against cervical cancer.

2. Most HPV infections are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer.

3. Most HPV infections occur without any symptoms and go away without any treatment over a few years.

4. Sexually transmitted high risk HPVs include types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 68, 69 and possibly a few others. There are over 100 types of HPVs. The vaccine claims to protect against only two of the high-risk types. It is important to note that the majority of high-risk HPV infections go away on their own and do not cause cancer. This is accepted by the National Cancer Institute in the US.

Therefore the best way to prevent cervical cancer is monitoring the HPV via pap test. Injecting women’s and little girls’ bodies with toxic chemicals will just damage their fragile immune system.

5. Having many sexual partners is a risk factor for HPV. Therefore, it makes much more sense for parents and those in leadership positions in our country to campaign for chastity based sex education programmes rather than continuing with the big lie of the so-called ‘safe sex’ or ‘safer sex’ message. Condoms do not protect against this disease, it is passed on by skin-to-skin contact.

6. NB. In specific cases, vaccination with the Gardasil vaccine has been found to increase the risk of developing high-grade pre-cancerous lesions by 44.6%. Thousands of serious side effects of the vaccine, including deaths, are currently under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration in the USA.

7. Conclusion: This vaccine has caused serious adverse reactions, is expensive, unnecessary, damaging to the immune system, ineffective against all types of HPV (it is against only two types of HPV – over 100 exist) and could even increase the risk of developing cervical cancer for some by almost 50%.

Please see website www.cogforlife.org/gardasil.htm for further information on HPV.

Mairead Scannell,
Dublin Rd,
Fermoy.

LAUGHING STOCK

Dear Editor,

Over the last 5 years Fermoy has been the laughing stock of the country over our so-called councillors. There are only a few councillors who have tried unsuccessfully to make a better town for us all but the majority are quite content in keeping Fermoy in the Stone Age. There has been nothing but disaster after disaster in Fermoy for the term of this council.

To name but a few – The I.D.A. park on the Dublin Road still sits idle, the old Faber Castell with 11 units sitting idle, the fiasco with Lawton Developments over the building of a hotel, the disaster over the Shipton Group development at the mart site and planning turned down for the sites of Barry’s Timber Yard and Grandon’s Garage. Let’s not even get into it the lowering of the weir and the so-called flood plan.

I was hoodwinked last time by a few councillors into giving them votes but this time round I will have my eyes wide open. I as a member of a homeless boxing club in Fermoy, have listened to their lies and empty promises for years but enough is enough.

We owe it to ourselves to elect a proper council who will work for us and not against us as so many councils over the years have done.

I urge the people of Fermoy to take a long hard look at who they intend to vote for this time as another five years of what we just had could just destroy the town forever.

Well done Pat.

John Bowes,
Redmond St,
Fermoy.