I agree with Brian McDevitt that group chairman Brian Kerr’s salary is too much for his work in Rehab.

Amy Conroy’s I Love Alice Love I runs at the Peacock Theatre from next week. She tells Pádraic Killeen why its subject matter is so important

AN UNSUNG Irish war hero credited with saving thousands of lives is to be honoured with an international humanitarian award in his name.

WHEN people look back at the passage of yesterday’s Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006, they will see that it was passed in the Dáil unanimously, without opposition or abstentions.

MARY Gallagher’s excellent letter on Orwell’s prediction of political correctness (Irish Examiner, May 2) in regard to the ‘New Word Order’ article (Irish Examiner, April 30) speculates that the thought police will follow the language police.

ACCORDING to the late Eamonn Kelly, St Patrick never came to Kerry because the Cork people stole his donkey.

MICHEÁL Ó’Nualláin’s letter on Aosdána (Irish Examiner, Dec 28) poses the question - what’s the difference between an academic and a non-academic? Any closed club – and Aosdána seems to be just that – is elitist and has nothing to offer the ordinary citizen. Isn’t it time now that we came out of our boxes?

THOMAS Brennan’s letter, ‘Smoke ‘em out’ (Irish Examiner, Nov 1), is a fine example of prejudice.