In Joe Little’s RTE interview recently with Ruari Quinn and John Kelly of Irish SOCA, John Kelly confronted the minister, pointing out that he was wrong in claiming that the new €500,000 memorial for neglected and abused children represented all Irish abused children.

Nobody likes criticism and politicians are no exception.

Recent public and media comment on the issue of pay and increments in the public sector makes no effort to distinguish between the circumstances and roles of different public sector employees in receipt of these payments.

Mr Waugh in his recent letter on the link between fluoride and atherosclerosis (Letters, Jul 23) fails to point out that the fluoride involved in this study was part of a whole-body sodium fluoride dose administered by intravenous injection in nuclear medicine for the treatment of cancerous tumours.

Following my holiday break in Bantry over the weekend for the visit of our superb President Michael D Higgins for the launch of the Atlantic challenge, I wish to say the following.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron is attempting some spectacular reform in the House of Lords.

Would the owners of that fabled €13 trillion please identify themselves?

I am ignorant of the workings of the financial world but, about I was recently asked: “Who are — or were — Anglo Irish Bank?”

I am ignorant of the workings of the financial world but, about I was recently asked: “Who are — or were — Anglo Irish Bank?”

Evil was projected into a Denver cinema via the barrel of a firearm.