I want to pay tribute to Dublin City Council, for backing the Bethany Survivors’ Group, and for saying that the State should apologise to, and compensate, Bethany victims.

The ADHD label has become too common. While blinding us with science, or, in the case of psychiatry, pseudo-science, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD could describe any child’s behaviour in school.

Fianna Fáil leader, Michael Martin, says “that just like the Church, the Republican movement saw the institution of the Republican movement as more important than individual victims.”

Doctors On Call, the RTE 1 programme, has missed a golden opportunity to provide the public with the true facts about heart-healthy diets.

The threat by the minister of education to refuse to pay teachers for extra work delivered (Irish Examiner, Nov 27) is very much a hollow one, considering that what the minister is actually demanding is that teachers do all this extra work (and more) for free anyway.

I am a 65-year-old lady who decided to take a day trip to Cork on Nov 26, mainly to visit Marks & Spencer.

On Sept 16 Lynn Kelliher wrote in your newspaper about the “uncanny accuracy” of long-range weather forecaster Ken Ring.

I always wondered why hospitals would allow cola, sweets and crisp dispensing machines in their premises. The leading factors to getting diabetes and high blood pressure comes from the products in these machines.

Bravo to Pat Daly when he says that the result of the Seanad referendum is that ‘overpaid, over-pensioned senators’ are “laughing all the way to the bank at the expense of a country in the grip of bankruptcy” (Letters, Nov 26).

I was appalled at the recent RTÉ Prime Time debate about organic growing which was clearly done with an intent to polarise the issue of organic food versus conventionally produced food.