Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Previous editions
IN a tribute to Robert Boyle (March 6), you state that Ireland has produced a Nobel prizewinner for chemistry. I cannot find any evidence of this.
I DON’T see how Jason FitzHarris (Letters, March 1) can argue with the Pope’s view that “a lack of respect for the human person” is at the heart of child abuse.
ON Friday, March 5, I attended a charity event at the Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll’s Quay, organised by Alma Kickham, actress and teacher with CADA Performing Arts Academy, in aid of Haiti.
THE ESRI is wrong in its assumption that limiting incineration will affect Ireland’s ability to meet EU directives diverting waste from landfill.
EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe has come in for a lot of criticism regarding cuts in special needs assistants (SNAs). Following the strict criteria set out for SNAs, the minister has maintained that “any child who needs a special needs assistant will get one”.
YOU reported (February 27) that a David Wall had decided to set up a website to name and shame local authorities that do not fill in potholes arising from the big freeze last January.
IN her letter (February 22), Laura Finlay complains that the Civil Partnership Bill lacks “rights and responsibilities offered by both marriage and civil marriage”.
NOW that there is no collection from the GPO in Cork at the weekend, a letter posted from Cork city to Galway at 9pm on Friday will not arrive until Tuesday, four days later.
I WISH to compliment Dan Buckley for his excellent article on Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty (‘The Vatican’s Elusive Pimpernel,” February 27).
THE ban on “upwards only” rents should apply equally to tenants in the private residential sector.
BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown apologised in parliament recently for the deportation of more than 130,000 children from the 1920s to the 1960s, mostly without parental knowledge and consent.
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