Hans Asperger, the erstwhile prominent Viennese paediatrician, could never have envisaged the global phenomenological fervour which enveloped and exponentially developed his collated observations on the perceived ‘psychopathy’ exhibited by some children with apparent communication, social-skillset, peer-empathy and physical adroitness issues.

Dr William Behan (Letters, July 18) plucks something like a victim’s bow, as he catalogues the dwindling percentage returns for the ‘struggling’ GP operating the medical card system.

In your Editorial of Jul 8 last you may have invented a new acronym, worthy to stand alongside the famous GUBU.

Richard Fitzpatrick (Features, Jan 16) treaded a tricky line relating the ‘evidence’ collated by Nassir Ghaemi and Ian Robertson to validate “links between leadership and mental health” and “how power affects your brain”, etc.

Michael Clifford has surely done for us all now (Opinion, Dec 15).

Michael Clifford (Analysis, Feb 17) poses some salient questions in his sortie into serious gun and gangland crime.

YOUR editorial and investigative report (July 5) unfurl the insulting finance figures associated with religious order escapades in the market-place.

MATT Cooper (Opinion, June 17), concisely catalogues the patent fallacies of the Tipperary casino-complex proposal, offering risk-assessment, reasoned reality and regular horse sense en-route.

LIVING with a disability can be a challenge in itself, but sometimes society makes it even harder. Let me give you an example. I was driving down the road, and not one but two people stared at me and laughed.

COULD someone please have a word with German Chancellor Angela Merkel?