Two recent reports on water fluoridation have not been reported by the media.

I wish to respond to some of the comments and misrepresentations made by Professor June Nunn, Prof Martin Kinirons, Dr John Walsh and Dr Peter Gannon, President of the Irish Dental Association, in their letter published in the Irish Examiner (Oct 1).

Declan Waugh, as usual, does not fail to deliver his usual overdose of bad science, tempered with a touch of apoplexy in his recent letter to the Irish Examiner (Wednesday, July 2) where he treats us to yet another cocktail of inaccuracy about water fluoridation. To his cult following in the outer reaches of the alternative health sector where homeopathy, and not medicine, holds sway he may be a hero. To those of us, who have taken the time and trouble to check his outrageous claims on this subject, he is, to put it mildly, quite misleading.

I congratulate the Irish Examiner for the article of June 3 highlighting the dangers to human health of endocrine disruptive chemicals. However, it’s a pity that the researcher did not mention that fluoride is the one endocrine chemical that the Irish public are exposed to the most, and in far greater concentrations than any other European country.

A review on the use of fluoride in the public water system will be completed by Christmas amid growing calls for the practice to be scrapped.

The Irish Examiner reported (Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013) that the chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said that the fluoridation of water was not a risk to the public. This opinion is not accepted in most developed countries.

The Irish Examiner reported (Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013) that the chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said that the fluoridation of water was not a risk to the public.

Some interesting facts on fluoride from the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS).

THE cost of the banking bailout combined with the current level of national debt now stands at approx €85,714 for each working person.

I AGREE with Declan Waugh (January 17) that the main political parties (Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil) have turned their back on Bandon. However, the Bandon Labour Party branch and Cllr Gearoid Buckley has ensured the Bandon electoral area remains a “high priority” through active engagement with the local community and businesses.

WE’VE heard a lot about zombie banks in recent months, but what got us into this crisis is a zombie government. A government that appears to be staggering aimlessly from one crisis to the next, cannibalising the economy to feed its insatiable addiction to saving the private banking sector at the cost of our economic sovereignty.

A 15-POINT plan has been put forward to reduce the risk of flooding and related-damage in a high-risk west Cork town.

THIS is one constituency where there will definitely be changes of personnel.

YOUNG people must pressurise political leaders in order to meet the challenge of climate change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations intergovernmental panel on climate change told delegates to the Partnership for Change — Climate Change Conference in Cork.

TACKLING climate change, and not the global economic crisis, is the greatest challenge facing humanity, international experts will tell a major conference in Cork next month.

WHEN you arrive at the train station in Cork, European City of Culture 2005, do not try to obtain refreshments as the restaurant there is permanently closed.

ON Tuesday last, President Bush requested 77 billion dollars from the US Senate to fight the war in Iraq.