Last week a former master of the Coombe Hospital, Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, complained that people are “firmly pro-choice or pro-life; nobody seems to live in the space in between”.

RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live debate on Ireland’s greyhound industry (September 18) highlighted troubling questions about just how inadequate anti doping procedures are on racing tracks.

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone’s speech to the 2017 Kennedy Summer School referred on numerous occasions to a “Republic of Equals”, a “Republic of Opportunity”.

Michael Clifford’s opinion piece about the George Hook sacking (Irish Examiner, September 16) includes throwaway comments about the 1983 “right to life” referendum campaign.

The Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA), the national representative body for landlords welcomes, with cautious optimism, the Minister for Housing’s proposed action to allow bedsit accommodation once again.

As a keen cyclist for decades, mostly through necessity rather than a hobby or showboating, I now find myself on occasions getting annoyed with the antics of my fellow two-wheeling compatriots.

The greatest argument against abortion for what is wrongly termed “Fatal Foetal abnormality” is given in the book “Under the Eye of the Clock” by Christopher Nolan.

I was heartened to learn that Dalata Hotel Group have terminated their relationship with Newstalk following George Hook’s atrocious comments about victims of rape.

An Garda Síochána are in meltdown with the ‘retirement’ of Nóirín O’Sullivan. Change seems to be near impossible in a police force compromised by their loyalty to one another. 

Recent claims that the Eighth Amendment has resulted in 100,000 babies being born need