ABOUT a week after meeting the Irish bishops, Pope Benedict finally made a pronouncement: “In every action, it is above all essential to protect and value the human person in their integrity”.

DAVID HERMAN (Letters, January 16) was refused entry to the US because his “passport was rejected on a new and purely technical ground”.

THERE is more than a modicum of irony about the Bord Gáis safety messages when one sees the current offering from the company showing a woman driving a car on a public road while giving her sales blurb to camera.

PUBLIC sympathy for the taxi drivers is low because the public memory is long. For years the citizens of Ireland were held to ransom by the taxi business with restrictive practices and extortionate fares. How many people queued for hours or had to walk home in the rain because this business was restricted by regulation?

ACCORDING to reports, Iarnród Éireann says the underwater inspection of the viaduct that collapsed in Malahide, Co Dublin, was carried out in line with regulations.