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Category: Letters
Echo Letters: Free education assertion is an insult to parents paying back-to-school costs
By Echo Reader Dear Editor,IN its 11th annual school costs, children’s charity Barnardos said the education system has “inequality and unfairness” at its ...
Echo Letters: Minister ‘has no intention of engaging with people of Tallaght’
Dear Editor, I READ a letter which The Echo published in its August 4 edition. The letter was entitled ‘Planning guidelines and ...
Echo Letters: Planning guidelines and appeals procedures
The following is a reply from the Dept. of Housing, Planning and Local Government to an open letter from Aidan Thomas to ...
Echo Letters: Homeowners urged to check domestic plumbing for lead pipes
Dear Editor, IRISH Water’s proposals to add orthophosphate to water supplies nationally, providing a barrier between water and the pipework to combat ...
Echo Letters: Why is green space being used for infill housing in Tallaght?
Dear Editor, This year for the first time in over 25 years, there was no tennis coaching for youth in Dodder Park ...
Echo letters: Abuse and misuse of section 8 at Dodder Park
Dear Editor, A South Dublin County Council area committee report dated Monday May 23rd 2016 states that in relation to the tennis/basketball ...
Decision to refuse permit not ‘blanket ban’ on AAA
By Echo ReaderDear Editor, District Court judge Michael Coghlan upheld the decision of a senior Garda to refuse an Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor ...
Good quality social housing is needed for South County
By Echo ReaderDear Editor, I AM most concerned that the issue of social housing is becoming so contentious within our community. The ...
Red meat, cancer, and how medicine has changed
By Echo ReaderDear Editor, In response to the letter about red meat causing cancer, it’s not the first time that red meat ...
Doctor’s honesty and conviction gave us hope for the future
Echo ReaderDear Editor, SOMEONE once said ‘the measure of any society is how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens’. Over ...