THE ombudsman for children, Emily Logan, stated correctly (August 30) that listening to young people and learning what they actually want is an important part of promoting and safeguarding their rights.

DAVID CAMERON, Tory Leader and a jolly good bet to be British prime minister reasonably soon, had some interesting things to say recently while commenting on the UNICEF report entitled Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries.

MUCH like the environment, society is showing serious signs of disintegration.

NO ONE seems to have an answer to the tragic loss of young lives on our roads.

I WATCHED the Panorama programme (BBC1, October 1) on the Vatican’s ‘management’ of paedophile clergy with exasperation and disgust.

READING the headline “Cameras to catch a million speeding drivers” (Irish Examiner, August 2), annoyance and disbelief surfaced within me.

‘FF grassroots wither and die, says the headline over Pat Brosnan’s column (Irish Examiner, May 13).

FROM 1997 to 2001 I was very involved in helping Irish adults who had been adopted to the USA in the 1950s to find their birth families.

JUST a warning in case you missed Fergus Finlay’s nauseating revelation in his column headlined ‘Government continues scandalous handouts to dog and horse industries’ (Irish Examiner, October 12), or you hadn’t the patience to wade through the figures.

WHAT is it in our make-up that makes Irish people so intolerant of difference?

OVER the last number of weeks, I have listened to and read the various arguments to and for bringing in a computerised electoral system.

CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that fish have a memory span of about a second. But conventional wisdom, it turns out, is wrong.