IN 2004, a worldwide poll ranking female representation in national politics put Ireland in 63rd position.

BOTH your columnist Terry Prone and Anthony Leavy, in your letters page, raise the matter of women in politics (Irish Examiner, March 26).

THE Labour Party’s women and equality officer Kirsi Hanifin (Irish Examiner letters, January 20) takes me to task for stating (Letters, January 16) that domestic violence is not a gender issue.

PATRICK McGINNITY suggests domestic violence is not and should not be seen as a gendered issue (Irish Examiner, January 16).