IN his letter (May 29), Gregóir de Buitléir posed the question “cui bono... to whose benefit is it to censure all religious brothers and all schools?

WHILE not disagreeing with Gregóir de Buitléir (‘Battering the brothers’, Letters May 29), I must honestly state there was severe and excessive physical punishment in the two religious-run schools that I attended.

I REFER to Gregóir de Buitléir’s letter (‘A Mon boy rallies to defence of Christian Brothers’, May 14) in response to Matt Cooper’s column (May 9) about the brothers at the ‘North Mon’ in Cork.