As America’s National Football League (NFL) prepares to tackle a class action lawsuit filed by over 4,000 former professional players relating to the onset of dementia after retirement, consultant Dr Bill Tormey has expressed his concern about the future health of Ireland’s rugby players who repeatedly endure an “extreme hammering” due to the physical nature of the modern game.

Praveen Halappanavar may be forced to disclose his wife’s medical records to a coroner in an inquest into her death.

Coalition party councillors will need a lot of convincing, says Juno McEnroe

The juxtaposition of the American Deep South and Ireland (Irish Examiner, Apr 7) may have resonance for Irish Travellers. Your readers may like to know that some councillors in Dublin are not caught under the ‘votes at all costs’ umbrella.

PROFESSOR Eoin O’Brien resigned as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland “in protest against the failure of either Royal College to support colleagues who have been prevented from performing the fundamental duty that doctors are trained for, namely treating the sick and wounded”.

THE report on Monday that HSE Forum South members from Fine Gael are threatening to quit the “talking shop” comes as no surprise. I have attended two meetings of the chairpersons of the four national forums.

Roisin Shorthall has been re-elected in Dublin North West on the first count.

IN her column (October 25), Terry Prone wrote the most incisive political commentary I have read for a long time.

Fears were mounting tonight of an escalation in a bloody gangland feud after a known criminal associate was gunned down at his workplace in daylight hours.

A man was murdered today in a suspected gangland hit after being shot at least twice in the head.

The controversial issue of the new 30 kilometre speed limit in Dublin city centre will be debated later by the city council.

THE trade union work-to-rule in the public sector begs a few pertinent questions.

I WAS disappointed to read Dr Bill Tormey (Letters, January 7) describing Kathy Sinnott as a “religious zealot”.

A CHIEF prison officer claimed yesterday that the voice on a mobile phone confiscated from Catherine Nevin was that of sitting Fine Gael councillor Dr Bill Tormey.

Catherine Nevin was today acquitted of possessing a mobile phone at the Dochas centre, in Mountjoy prison, nearly two years ago.

DEFINING a legal framework for civil partnerships outside of conventional marriage is appropriate in the current Irish cultural climate. This should include heterosexual and homosexual social partnerships.

BALLYMUN/Finglas, the area I represent on Dublin City Council, has been blighted by so-called gangland murders for many years.

THE ability to understand and evaluate the rapidly changing world of biomedical sciences requires competence in the mathematical basis of the sciences, statistics and molecular biology.

Murder squad detectives were tonight hunting a three-man gang after a shooting left one man dead and another injured.

SHAMELESS self-interest was your accurate editorial verdict (June 6) on AIB’s new surcharge interest rate.

IN his letter on the health service (November 17), Dr Bill Tormey says arrogant managers should be put in their place and doctors should set the priorities.’

PROFESSOR RAY KINSELLA hits the bulls eye in his brilliant explanation of the overarching currents undermining and destroying the provision of medical services in Ireland (November 7).

QUALITY assurance is a core requirement in the empirical sciences.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has engaged in a level of political correctness weighed down with hypocrisy in his assertions that Dr Bill Tormey’s views on returning missionaries having to undergo compulsory medical tests amount to a “type of xenophobia”.

The Fine Gael leader is playing down controversial remarks by an election candidate for the party.

OPPOSITION leader Enda Kenny last night expressed “full confidence” in a high-profile Fine Gael Dáil candidate who called for hard drugs to be decriminalised and for returning Irish missionaries to be tested for HIV.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny must confirm whether proposals by a General Election candidate to legalise heroin or medical tests for returning missionaries are party policy, it was claimed today.

THE public can be forgiven for harbouring feelings of confusion amid the continuing controversy over the collapse of the trial of Dermot Laide for the manslaughter of Brian Murphy.

YOUR editorial claim (Irish Examiner, November 7) that the Government is merely rewarding incompetence by rehiring recently retired civil servants to continue to serve in their previous departments is dubious.

I SALUTE the bravery of the family of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney.