In your article (Jul 9) on the present fine spell, you report on the further forecasts of New Zealand weather “guru” Ken Ring.

Women owe Drs Mary Favier and Mark Murphy a vote of thanks for trying to drag the Irish Medical Organisation into the 21st century.

I am 90 years of age and in the last World War, all opposition politicians joined the government to get through the crisis.

Dr Laurence Davis of the Department of Government in UCC is well known for his unquestioning anti-Israel stance and it never fails to amaze me how one person could be so totally one sided and blind in his approach to this very complex question.

THE annual Michael Collins commemoration will come in for particular attention this year because it’s the 90th anniversary, and the Taoiseach will be the orator.

K Nolan (Letters, Jun 23) tells us that he shows his visitors from abroad Bertie Ahern’s TV commercial for a tabloid newspaper, presumably as his contribution to the welfare of Ireland Inc. This must afford him great satisfaction.

K Nolan (Letters, Jun 23) tells us that he shows his visitors from abroad Bertie Ahern’s TV commercial for a tabloid newspaper, presumably as his contribution to the welfare of Ireland Inc. This must afford him great satisfaction.

IT HAS been interesting to follow this week’s discussion on gender quotas in the letters column and to see the charge made that they are undemocratic or discriminatory.

MY class is doing a project in the hope of abolishing corporal punishment in all African schools.

THE decision of the European Court of Human Rights to ban the crucifix from Italian classrooms is either anti-christian or just simply a very ignorant and dangerous precedent.

HOW ironic if, as Dan Buckley suggests (July 21), a European Court of Human Rights decision in the A,B and C abortion cases becomes Europe’s equivalent of Roe v Wade.

MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN has beauty and brains.

JAMES McGrath (‘Women not misled on abortion trauma’, Letters, November 24) may have missed the August 2008 publication of the most comprehensive examination yet undertaken in relation to the psychological impacts of abortion: the American Psychological Association’s two-year evaluation of studies published in peer-reviewed journals since 1989.

I WONDER if Mr Sarkastic is being a little Sarkozy.

THERE has been considerable discussion recently over the failure of HSE South to provide general anaesthetic facilities to adult patients with special needs. This problem has been ongoing for almost 12 months.

IN November 2006, as a member of the orthodontic services review body, I submitted a minority report to the chairman of the committee Mr Hugh Kane, and to Professor B Drumm.

THE letter from Maurice Dockrell headlined ‘Enda’s ‘twaddle’ fails to impress’ (Irish Examiner, January 27) was a rant that made no sense.

I WISH to comment briefly on the recent debate in your letters page (September 9/16) on the use of the title ‘doctor’.

I REFER to the letter headlined ‘Orthodontic services are making real progress’ (Irish Examiner, February 4).

I WISH to congratulate Dr Seamus O’Reilly, consultant medical oncologist, and the Irish Examiner, for exposing the terrible state of cancer hospital services in Cork.

A SUB-COMMITTEE of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children recently produced their report on public health orthodontic services.

THE LATE Gus Healy, a Lord Mayor of Cork and a Fianna Fáil TD, made many contributions to the development of the city and the welfare of its people.