I WISH to comment on the scandal of vaccine trials in Ireland. I have met victims of these trials – some of them have suffered ill health since they were used for vaccine trials as babies.

MATTHEW Elderfield for Taoiseach.

THE recent hardship caused by burst water pipes highlighted the precarious condition of our water supply network.

ON his visit to the US this week, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said “a tiny, evil minority sought to destroy what the people of Ireland have built”.

IN her letter (March 11), Susan O’Neill thought my criticism (Letters, February 28) of Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s cuts of special needs classes was politically naive.

I WISH to put forward some suggestions in response to your report headlined ‘Food waste mountain 50% above EU target’ (January 29).

I WOULD like to express my heartfelt sympathy to all who have lost their jobs and who are otherwise in any way affected by the end of production at Dell in Limerick.

ON Tuesday it was revealed that more than 1,000 children across the country are delayed on waiting lists for diagnosis by various HSE’s regional autism diagnostic teams.

I WISH to congratulate archaeologist Dr Conor Newman for his integrity and courage in saving the Lismullen site on the M3 now under construction.

THANK you for giving me the opportunity to alert people to the changes in the Leader programme (Letters, October 23).

HAVING attended the county hurling finals last week at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, I, like most neutrals, felt sorry for Cloyne losing out for the third year on the trot in the senior final.