The Scottish Patient Safety Programme has identified six key interventions for the early recognition and treatment of Sepsis (severe infection).

Our national suicide problem is now so bad that three people a day are taking their own lives. Gardaí are said to be monitoring known suicide hotspots, such as quay sides and sea cliffs in Clare, such is the scale of the problem.

Given the increased poverty on our streets and in homes it is heartening to see widespread support in Cork for an array of charities.

I was very impressed recently when I was sent by my GP to the Emergency& Department of Cork Mercy Hospital.

So yet another government is pretending to be keen on efficiency and wanting to get rid of people who are not able for their duties (teachers at this moment).

With respect to the recent penalty points scandal, if there was any conscience or decency left anywhere in high office there is a way for the powers that be to save face and right the wrong that has been done to nobodys (ie people who know nobody in high places or aren’t famous).

Once again with recent voting on the budget we have seen a complete lack of democracy in the Dáil.

It was extraordinary reading the comments attributed to Minister for Finance Michael Noonan during the cropped property tax debate.

Requesting a public inquiry into Desmond De Silva’s report, if granted, will open a can of worms that scares the British “Counter Insurgency elite”.

Unlike Derek Leinster, (letters, Dec 14), I am not a product of the Bethany Home but I nonetheless feel outraged at the treatment these children received and a sense of anger at my powerlessness.