IN her column (October 25), Terry Prone wrote the most incisive political commentary I have read for a long time.

THE trade union work-to-rule in the public sector begs a few pertinent questions.

DEFINING a legal framework for civil partnerships outside of conventional marriage is appropriate in the current Irish cultural climate. This should include heterosexual and homosexual social partnerships.

PLANNING, zoning and listed building decisions by councillors are often controversial.

THE ability to understand and evaluate the rapidly changing world of biomedical sciences requires competence in the mathematical basis of the sciences, statistics and molecular biology.