It’s a horrible experience to be burgled and lose some of your prized possessions.

ONE can only hope — probably in vain — that the sentiments expressed recently by Dr Martin McAleese, while visiting Barnardos’ ‘Da Project’ in Dublin, are taken on board by the incoming Government.

Fergus Finlay took issue (Irish Examiner, October 24) with an earlier article by Terry Prone in which, according to Mr Finlay, she argued that we live in an over-regulated world, peopled by politically correct bureaucrats, which is spoiling childhood.

IN March of this year a Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime was set up by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Michael McDowell.