GERALD DUFFY does not provide a convincing rebuttal to Michael Dorgan’s concerns about water fluoridation (March 9). Making claims like “this is a widely accepted fact” and quoting sources in the US government will not convince the discerning reader.

TO those who are opposed (some for understandable historical reasons) to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland, I say — give her a chance.

I WAS very surprised when I saw your frontpage last Thursday.

THE new Government is examining ways to reduce the €85bn bailout burden. Among the proposals is far-reaching privatisation of yet more State resources in a big sell-off. Great. This will help continue the trend of concentrating even more of the country’s wealth into fewer, private hands.

REORGANISING the government departments and combining some of them makes sense from organisational and efficiency points of view.

THE Bar Council has developed a photographic archive of various legal people and places throughout the years.

ON arriving back in Ireland after living in Chicago for the last year, I took a taxi home.

THE revolt in North Africa and the Middle East began in Tunisia in mid-December. By mid-February, it had spread to Libya. By March 7 petrol prices at the pumps broke the €1.50 level in Ireland.

IS there no end to Ireland’s ability to waste resources? Did the previous government and the banks not do enough damage, without the VHI following on with further destruction?

I JUMPED with joy when I heard how five brave women won their legitimate right to a proper wage in their battle with the Davenport Hotel.