As partners for the past 11 years of the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment, we were relieved at the decision of Indaver to abandon its legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s planning refusal for their incinerators at Ringaskiddy.

I am writing to you to express my disappointment with the Government and to alert them to the lack of guidelines for the prevention of cyberbullying.

Health Minister James Reilly’s transferring of lots (areas of home help care formally under the HSE) to private care providers can be justified by him as a rational measure which will relieve the HSE of some of its top-heavy bureaucratic burden, thereby removing from Dr Reilly the stench of political corruption, which would otherwise attach itself to an office holder lending a vital helping hand in furthering the interest of the private care sector.

I have no confidence in Dr Reilly’s objectivity given events that have so far come to light regarding Primary Care Centres.

Ireland has one of the lowest levels in Europe of female participation in electoral politics.

The courage shown by Malala Yousafzai in speaking out against Taliban human rights abuses was remarkable and it’s good to see she was evacuated to a hospital in Birmingham after she was brutally shot by the Taliban (Riaz Khan, Irish Examiner Oct 16).

We here in Europe looked on with great mirth as Kim Jong Il, the former leader of North Korea, claimed to have shot 11 holes-in-one in a single round of golf.

Apart from fat-cat trade unionists, the Labour Party, and the bankers, is there any group in Irish society more hypocritical than liberal Catholics?

What an interesting, and for me , timely, front page headline on today’s (Oct 19) Irish Examiner, concerning the perilously fragile future for CIE.

New regulations governing animal experimentation are due before the Dáil.