Improper influence... Consultant fees... Fart-ical idea
Tuesday April 22 2008
- I am writing concerning the case of Labour deputy Kathleen Lynch who wrote a letter to the judge hearing a rape case in Co Cork defending the accused on the basis that he came from a good family.
I believe Ms Lynch should resign, after already issuing a "regretful" statement in which she accepts it was "inappropriate" for a TD to interfere in such a serious case.
It was more than "inappropriate". Our judiciary is supposed to be separate and above political influence.
B HOLLAND
PORTLAOISE, CO LAOIS
- So, the consultants seem to be "happy" with €260,000 plus. Why bother to win the Nobel Prize, when you can rake it in -- and who still doubts that for these guys it's all about lolly?
Who are all these medical geniuses, anyhow? Surely those finally picking up the massive tab should be entitled to know exactly what these people's qualifications (grades, please) and publications (if any) are. One suspects that their ranks include a lot of physicians flogging the carcass of the Celtic Tiger for all it's still worth.
JAMES N O’SULLIVAN
HAMBURG, GERMANY
- The HSE can feel quite proud of having reached agreement with the hospital consultants after only four years of talks. After all, it can take that long for some public patients to even meet one of them.
RONAN O CAOINDEALBHAIN
BAILE ATHA CLIATH 15
- May I congratulate the letter writers for their learned contribution to the energy debate, vis-a-vis wind and donkey power. I see these scribes as men of vision saying goodbye to the Celtic Tiger and ushering in the electrifying days of donkey power.
May I submit without prejudice to the contrary that the greenhouse gases produced by 40 million donkeys are more fart-ical than ass-inine.
TERRY FITZPATRICK
GLASNEVIN, DUBLIN
