Mount Carmel is here on a plate — tried, tested, staffed and urgently needed to help our stressed health system.

I have a dim memory of an old TV movie from 1980 called Ohms.

We, the members of Step Forward disability group, wish to express our concern and outrage about the misappropriation of funds in both CRC and Rehab.

Eirgrid has a 220kV power line, from Cork to Waterford to Kildare.

I am writing to protest at the wind turbine monstrosities that are being erected in Cork harbour in an area that has been blighted by hideous development for years.

It is utterly disgraceful that the Government so happily agreed to yet another sweet deal with the public-sector trade unions, in order to take advantage of the hard-pressed Irish taxpayer.

Patrick Kelly’s letter (January 31) on behalf of his — in his words — “bastard father,” and those like him who were castigated by Church pulpiteers and others, (1916, Granard, in his case) bears reflection.

Your front page article, ‘Priests say Church out of touch on family planning’ by Stephen Rodgers (Irish Examiner, Febraury 1) intrigued me.

Louise O’Keeffe is to be congratulated for having the courage of her convictions for pursuing the State in relation to the grievous wrong done to her 15 years ago. Her bravery and determination should make her a role model for us all.

Talk is cheap was Leo Varadkar’s dismissive reaction to Lucinda Creighton and the Reform Alliance’s recent meeting in the RDS.