Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) has observed with dismay and concern the increasingly commonplace but unacceptable use of the term ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to refer to cases of ‘defilement’ under the 2006 Sexual Offences Act.

I am a 13-year-old student.

I don’t think the Government should resurrect Enda Kenny’s proposal to downgrade Irish at senior level (Matt Cooper, Feb 24), but it should revisit the counterproductive and asinine decision to scrap continental languages in national schools.

Obviously, SIPTU’s new, higher Liberty Hall is benchmarked and is in keeping with the largesse from the Croke Park agreement.

I believe that the present economic crisis and the 1929 crash are linked.

The leaders of the IRA of the 1940s were prepared to assist a German invasion of Ireland, against the wishes of the then Irish Government.

I refer to JA Barnwell’s letter (Feb 23) asserting that the title of “collaborator” can never be awarded to citizens of non-belligerent states.

Could I please make a simple straight-forward, no-nonsense point regarding those seeking legislation based on the X case of 1992 as per your recent article (Features, Feb 23).

I would like to endorse the recent sentiments expressed by Edward Twohig (Letters, Feb 23) regarding the suffering and untimely deaths of the hundreds of thousands of animals tested in laboratories in Ireland.

The hysteria which has greeted the planning decision on the National Children’s Hospital, places us all in danger of a knee-jerk populist and partisan reaction leading to decisions as flawed as those which have got us “here” on this issue.