The new children’s hospital is just another name for Consultants Convenience Hospital, using the suffering of children to blackmail the spineless government to locate it in Dublin.

It’s becoming noticeable that when EU governments allude to pensioners, it is always with the added ‘admonition’ that older folk are living longer now, and costing more because of this. What next?

As a mother, I am shocked at the proposal in the Children’s Rights Referendum that will allow the state to adopt any child without the consent of the child’s parents or even its mother.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny exercised poor judgement in appointing Dr Reilly.

In your letters page, Michael Walsh, of Right of Place, in Cork, talks about the 50/50 contribution from the religious congregations towards the settlement of the redress board.

I would like to address the challenge facing Barack Obama in the coming month.

Criminal activity and amoral behaviour are being normalised in Ireland.

Michael McCarthy TD (Labour), says the recent controversy regarding former Minister Roisín Shortall has been unhelpful to his party.

Is it not highly significant that in all of the media comments on the registration of septic tanks, very few commentators explained why a huge number of people, almost half, refused to register?

I found Labour TD Michael McCarthy’s recent letter in the Irish Examiner laughable.