MICHAEL O’Connell (Letters, October 13) poses the question as to what Dana would do if presented with legislation she found to be morally repugnant.

I REFER to the letter writer (October 12) who says his daughter’s school bag weighs under two stone.

THE recent letter by Richard Prendergast (October 13) is unfair in its attack on professional Irish educators.

WEDNESDAY’s presidential debate on Prime Time exposed the hypocrisy of most of the candidates.

THE drugs problem in this country is now so bad that doctors’ surgeries are been raided and violated in an unashamed fashion.

THE situation in housing estates with groups of children playing for hours and late into the evening without any adult supervision is alarming.

FORGIVE me if I have failed to find any coverage in your newspaper of the recent apology given unreservedly by RTÉ to Galway priest, Fr Kevin Reynolds, for the false allegation of sexual abuse made against him on PrimeTime last May.

YOUR newspaper reports on the family of a woman who died from the failure of a transplanted liver calling for an “opt-out donor card system”.

IT has taken the actions of David Kelly, an honest and sincere man, to demonstrate how a McGuinness presidency would proceed: Dogged by controversy at every public appearance at home and abroad.

IT seems some in the media can’t help themselves when it comes to interviewing the presidential candidate Martin McGuinness.