A teenager admitted wrapping a neck chain around his fist to cause more injury to a man he was assaulting at a fast-food restaurant in Cork city.

Most of us have been asked how many of the world’s 100 most influential books we have read — but how many could identify them when written in Georgian using the 9th century Nuskhuri alphabet?

Dr Daniel Herlihy (Letters Apr 12) adopts something of a classic QED approach when it comes to assessing medical GPs’ response to personal distress issues such as examination anxiety: “I would say that if one attends a medical doctor with symptoms then one can reasonably expect a medical approach to alleviating those symptoms, given that is what doctors are trained to do.”

Mr Cosgrove raises questions which merit a response in his letter (Aprl 9).

Niamh Drohan’s study (Apr 3) of GP prescribing of antidepressants was unethical.