For many with phobias of lifts and being stuck in one, the scenario that Ministers Kathleen Lynch and James O’Reilly endured in Grangegorman, though horrendous, was tempered by having doctors and psychiatrists entrapped with them.

New regulations governing animal experimentation are due before the Dáil.

I read Juno McEnroe’s article on Archbishops Diarmuid’s speech at the McGill summer school (Jul 25) and I am disgusted with the Archbishop’s disingenuous reference to investigating the “quality of care” in mother and baby homes.

FIRST, congratulations to the Irish Examiner’s Jennifer Hough for the excellent special investigation into the topsy-turvy world of mental health treatment in Ireland.

PERHAPS the free-falling Green party could now spare us all the excruciating spectacle of a years-long, PD-type process and instead go straight to the tent-folding?

I REFER to your report headlined “TDs receive ‘hate emails’ after gun debate” (November 2).

I HAVE been an Olympic target shooter for the past 14 years. I’ve competed, coached and run competitions. I’m a licensed judge.

IN his letter (September 22), Dr Philip Michael was selective in quoting from the joint report of the OECD and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to criticise statements made by Dr Philip Walton at the recent peak oil and gas conference in Cork.