WILL Irish industrial relations history record a vital own-goal by SIPTU in Croke Park?

IN his letter (March 15), Kieran Kennedy highlighted then Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s lip service to schoolchildren with special needs, while in practice the minister sought to restrict the role of the Special Needs Assistant (SNA) to one of “care” at the expense of educational support.

DEIRDRE de Búrca was nominated to the Seanad by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 2007 after failing to get elected to the Dáil for Wicklow.

I WISH to express alarm at RTÉ’s increasing propensity to dumb down real political debate and allow public service broadcasting become an arm of Government.

I WOULD like to respond to your article “Aid culture blamed for Niger famine” (Irish Examiner, August 1), and some of the views expressed.