HELP SERGIO

Dear Sir,

I wish to avail of your papers wide circulation to promote a fundraising concert scheduled for Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at The Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown.

The purpose of the event is to assist a family travel to Children’s Hospital, Boston for life-changing surgery needed by their one year old boy, Sergio O’Connor. Baby Sergio, a twin, was born with an incomplete oesophagus, which prevents him from eating, drinking or swallowing. The family needs to raise €500k-€600k to fund Sergio’s treatment.

The O’Connor family are a .... .

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WATER UTILITY BODY

Dear Editor,

The establishment of a water utility body and future funding requirements, should be seen in the context of water conservation by various methods, and not for solely commercialisation of water as a resource.

The government should encourage farmers to conserve water by forcing them to fix burst pipes on their farms that can leak massive amounts of water for years on end.

This can also be a problem in the domestic setting. Domestic cisterns and all government departments should have the new ... .

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HOW TIMES HAVEN’T CHANGED

Dear Editor,

This week’s three day so-called National Hare Coursing “Festival” in Clonmel, County Tipperary, will be hailed by the pro-blood sports lobby as a celebration of a proud old tradition that can be traced back to antiquity.

I will not dispute that hare coursing has been around for quite a while, but then so has opposition to it. Saint Augustine in the fifth century wrote in his Confessions of how as a young man he went to the Roman Circus or coliseum to see hares coursed, but later came to ...... .

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