Madam, - Last Sunday at 3pm I drove past our Claregalway parish church where the funerals of Joan and Siobhán O'Reilly were taking place. They had been killed the previous Thursday just yards from their home when Joan was taking her daughter to work for 6 am. The church and garden outside were thronged with mourners. The grief was tangible.
Just 200 yards beyond this scene I was in a row of four to five cars heading towards Galway when a car cut out and passed us, still inside the speed limit, on a bend with no clear view of any on-coming traffic.
Further on, at Riverside, I was the sixth car drawn up at traffic lights when a motorcycle passed the whole row of cars and zoomed through the red lights.
While the extra penalty points may be well intended, they are like the Ten Commandments - completely dependent on oneself to obey them. There seems to be no one to enforce them. When will this carnage stop? One's heart cannot take much more. Dear God help us - it does not look as if anyone else cares. - Yours, etc,
CHRISTINE KEANEY, Lakeview, Claregalway, Co Galway.