Cycling on pavement is wrong — end of story

I see from your letters page that I have atracted the ire of one of those people who will argue for the sake of an argument, or is Mr John Murphy just another member of the obfuscation brigade? If indeed, he had bothered to read my letter correctly, he would have seen that far from ‘blackwashing’ one particular viewpoint, I stated that most cyclists are law abiding and that there should be cycling lanes everywhere in Galway.

I have no difficulty in accepting that riding a bicycle on the roads of Galway city can be very dangerous, irrespective of helmets and high visibility jackets, since I was knocked off my own bicycle two years ago while cycling on the street.

Pension age changes might mean pensioners will need to get boob jobs to work in fast food outlets

Taoiseach, Brian Cowen says that by 2060 there will be two people at work to support every pensioner. Where did he get this figure? Was it from some astrologist or from some psychic sitting in the Irish Financial Centre. Surly there is no shortage of people from all over the world who want to come to Ireland if we have jobs to offer to support our aging citizens.

The problem is not the lack of availability of workers, the problem it is that at present there is not even enough jobs to support even today's pensioners and he wants an excuse to take more money from the PAYE worker. The Pension Reserve has been rifled by the Government to shore up the black hole in our banking system without our consent. This money should have been used for job creation but alas...the lack of jobs is not high on the agenda. To compound the problem Public Servants Pensions are paid from the day to day expenses of running the country.

Help the Galway Rowing Club get a new boat

I feel embarrassed writing to your readers in these recessionry times to seek your ongoing financial support once more for the above club. Our senior and intermediate crews have outgrown (weightwise) their eight-boat and, while training under head coach Tom Sullivan is going well since October, they are in dire need of a new heavyweight boat.

To address this problem, the committee of the club of which I am president, have elected to purchase a new eight at a cost of €25,000, from Filippi boat builders in Italy.

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