Saturday 25 May 2013
• Shouldn't your parenting section be called 'Parent & Babies' instead of 'Mothers & Babies'?
There are many fathers interested in parenting issues who are primary or sole caregivers and who may find the title exclusive and alienating.
Jack Ryan
Dublin
Irish Independent
* Driving through Connemara, I could not help but observe again the landscape, that is scarred, even seemingly in the most inhospitable and inaccessible places, by the long-abandoned markings of potato allotments that were the only giver of life and harbinger of death should they yield or fail in their cultivation.
* I find it hard to understand why we entered a singer for the Eurovision noise and banality competition when we had the more relevant expertise of Jedward available.
* Sir, I want to congratulate Seamus Coffey on his article on austerity (Irish Independent, May 21).
* Driving through Connemara, I could not help but observe again the landscape, that is scarred, even seemingly in the most inhospitable and inaccessible places, by the long-abandoned markings of potato allotments that were the only giver of life and harbinger of death should they yield or fail in their cultivation.
* I find it hard to understand why we entered a singer for the Eurovision noise and banality competition when we had the more relevant expertise of Jedward available.
* Sir, I want to congratulate Seamus Coffey on his article on austerity (Irish Independent, May 21).
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