"I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child’s character."

IN his letter headlined ‘The Church always pays for the sins of the past’ (June 15), Rev Dr D Vincent Twomey refers to the lecture by Fr Edward Flanagan of Boys Town, Nebraska, in the Savoy Cinema, Cork, in 1946.

THE Zimmer frame could soon have Ferrari-like street cred with the arrival of a new, well-ripened generation of movie star.