Letters to the Editor

A cemetery project is needed on Dublin Road Dear Editor, I would like to draw the attention of the citizens of Tuam â€â€ a cathedral town â€â€ to the appalling condition of our cemetery. [private] While not wishing to detract in any way from the excellent work undertaken by the local tidy towns group and the group involved in the renovation of the railway station, may I now suggest that it is time to set our sights on Tuam Cemetery, in particular the pedestrian pathways which are in sore need of basic maintenance. As the date of the annual cemetery mass is drawing near, when visitors come to pay their respects to their loved ones, can a cemetery project be now put in place immediately? Yours, Mary Holian Ballygaddy Road Tuam Beware on Chapel Lane Dear Editor, Last week while stuck in traffic yet again, I took a short cut from Glynn's Hardware up Chapel Lane towards the Tuam Shopping Centre. For as long as I can remember this has always been a two-way system but when I reached the crossroads to turn right, an irate woman driver started shouting that I was coming up a one-way street. To the best of my knowledge the road marking which depicts â€ËœNO ENTRY' is a continuous white line in front of a broke white line. If the lady in question did her driving test she should know this or maybe she needs to pay a visit to Spec Savers. Use the â€ËœSTOP' sign and exercise more caution next time you travel down this lane. Regards, Marian Daniels Beagh Brownsgrove, Tuam A Tuam man produced Secret Millionaire Dear Editor, I agree completely with Pat Howley's TV review last week regarding John Concannon on the Secret Millionaire programme on RTE. It made me proud to be from this area, and proud of the entrepreneurial spirit that made John the man he is today, entirely by his own efforts (and an initial boost via Charles Lynch, the County Development Officer when he first needed help with his multi-bucket idea). What readers may not know is that the producer of the programme was another Tuam man, Barry Egan, son of the well-known Barry of C Egan and Co, who sold many a Datsun and later Nissan to satisfied customers far and wide, and his wife Geraldine. Young Barry, if I may call him that, has forged a great career for himself in TV production and he deserves credit. Yours, Robert Canavan Aghlisk Tuam   Please get knitting for Age Action Dear Editor, Last year the nation got knitting for the Innocent Big Knit campaign. Your readers played a major role in helping to knit a whopping 80,000 little hats which, in turn, raised €20,000 for Age Action, the national charity for older people. With such a harsh winter last year, the funds were put to great use to ensure that older people in Ireland stayed well and warm. This year we have been busy knitting again. However, with just weeks to go to the October 14 deadline, we are currently well short of our 80,000 knitted (or crocheted) hat target. The hats will sit on bottles of Innocent smoothies and be sold in shops nationwide from the start of November. For every woolly hat-wearing smoothie sold, Innocent will give 25 cent to Age Action for their 'Stay well, stay warm' campaign for winter 2011. We hope people of all ages will again get involved, from novice knitters to champion clickers, so please spread the word within your local community. For more information, knitting instructions and variety of knitting patterns please visit www.innocentdrinks.ie /thebigknit. Please send your little hats to: The Innocent Big Knit, Fruit Towers, 120 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2 or drop them into your local Age Action shop. Remember to include your name and address so that we can say thank you. Yours sincerely, Eamon Timmins Head of Advocacy & Communications Age Action 30/31 Lower Camden Street Dublin 2 [/private]