WHILE his parents await an appeal in the Supreme Court, Seán Ó Cuanacháin is continuing to thrive at his specialist autism school in Co Wicklow.

THE High Court ruling against a family seeking a better education for their autistic child represents a major blow for hundreds of other parents in a similar predicament.

IN his letter headlined ‘Religion had nothing to do with struggle for independence’ (Irish Examiner, July 31), Pádraig Ó Cuanacháin takes me to task for suggesting that the killing of Mrs Lindsay and the sparing of Fr Shinnick was a sectarian response to their roles in trying to avert the Dripsey ambush in Co Cork and going to their relevant ‘sides’ in order to so do.

AN Amnesty International report has questioned the State’s commitment to tackling the problem of institutional racism by claiming there is a “fatal tension” in a key department.

I WISH to express my anger at the treatment meted out by the state to the family in Kells, Co Meath, who have struggled for years to provide for the needs of four autistic children.

AMNESTY International urged Tánaiste Mary Harney yesterday to ensure no Irish company is involved in supplying materials to build a controversial wall in the West Bank.

I REFER to William Ever’s letter (Irish Examiner, Sept 19), in which he says that Irish is a dead language.