AGEISM is rife in media coverage of the upcoming elections.

OUR current problem with maths has been predictable for going on 40 years.

MAYBE I have failed to notice the relevant information in the copious reports, but surely the Mahon Tribunal could have established — or still could establish — the truth in relation of the two disputed AIB bank lodgements in 1994, without having to resort to conjecture.

Five units of the Dublin fire brigade were this afternoon sent to tackle a blaze in Donnybrook.

IN his interesting column headlined ‘Right versus Left: Politics of the Body’ (Irish Examiner, January 1), Richard Collins shows that the issues raised by right/left dominance apply to animals as well as humans.

I WAS puzzled by the one-page feature (Irish Examiner, October 23) in which Seán McCárthaigh uncritically took on board the faulting by Colm O’Gorman of our clergy for not having mandatory reporting of sex-abuse allegations against priests and other church workers.

I WISH to congratulate Aílín Quinlan for her column headlined ‘Children’s ‘me’ culture is evident from playing pitches to the home’ (Irish Examiner, November 11).

THE final article (Irish Examiner, September 7) of your mammoth series on suicide, spread over three pages on three successive days, examined “the link between media coverage and suicide.”

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin’s proposed ‘special needs’ spending is a classic case of throwing good public money after bad where child dyslexics - mainly boys - are concerned.