Recently you published a half-page story by journalism student Niamh Drohan (News, April 3), describing her experiences attending seven doctors in Waterford with complaints of stress and anxiety

It is important for all decent people on this island in both jurisdictions — the Republic, and in Northern Ireland

Who says that RTÉ does not produce good comedy anymore?

While it is a common assumption among the general public that all teachers are in permanent pensionable employment, the reality is quite different.

I disagree with Terry Prone, when she says that people who do not vote in elections are ‘important’, ‘useful’, ‘sensible’, ‘sophisticated’.

Considering that I appeared only briefly in last Monday night’s documentary, In the Name of the Republic, about the War of Independence in Cork, I was surprised to find that John Borgonovo had so much to say about me in his response to the programme (Examiner, 27/3/2013).

How sickening to see the Oireachtas pass a piece of legislation that the Government pledged would update and modernise protection of animals in Ireland but that specifically exempts two of the most horrific blood sports from prohibition.

Having taken offence at the wearing of Easter lilies by TDs in the Dáil recently, Fine Gael party chairman, Charlie Flanagan, asked the ceann comhairle to rule on standing orders regarding the wearing of emblems in the Dáil.

The late British historian Robert Kee said the one certainty about history is that nothing is certain.

As a long-term patron of Cork Film Festival, I was baffled to read of the dismissal of director Mick Hannigan and programmer Una Feely.