I FIND that your piece by Colette Browne (Opinion, Dec 14) to be very unbalanced especially as this research was conducted just three months after the abortions when more often then not the effects of abortion become apparent in later years.

I FEEL obliged to respond to Kevin McCarthy, (Letters, Dec 8) when I said the Croke Park deal must be torn up.

I HOPE Michael Healy-Rae is suitably grateful that the present coalition won the last general election, after all the last minister for health wouldn’t have been much use to our Michael last Monday.

WE, the undersigned, are writing in protest at the recent decision of the Government in the budget to abolish the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI).

YET again we have seen a high-profile international conference on climate change conclude without any resolution.

DONAL Hickey’s column on your Outdoors page (Dec 12) is normally informative, entertaining and well-informed.

SO, Kevin Cardiff will get the job in Europe — jobs for the boys is alive and kicking.

REGARDING the collapse of the Kyoto protocol in Durban: after paying the ESB bill and paying for the coal, briquettes and oil just to stay warm, I find it interesting that politicians and scientists are trying to stop global warming.

WHEN under investigation by the gardaí, people like Sean Fitzpatrick are treated differently.

RECENTLY three of us travelled by train to Dublin from Cork returning the next day.