John Cuffe News Today

It seems that every day there are incidents of aggression and menace being reported in the news in our capital city.

As I watched D-Day commemorations and the stories told by veterans, I thought that after the horrors of World War II, and other wars, that enough would have been enough.

Ellen Coyne yesterday reported on the lack of regulation around counselling services for people experiencing crisis pregnancies (‘‘Rogue’ crisis pregnancy agencies have targeted 15 women, department says’, Irish Independent, April 23).

One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.

I write to you not just as a citizen but as a voice of people who have been sidelined for too long by policies and practices that have systematically failed us. This letter seeks an acknowledgment by way of a state apology and a commitment to change – a change that systemically respects the inherent dignity, rights, and autonomy of disabled children, adults and their families as equal members of society.

The Laramie Project, a play about the torture and murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, in 1998, has been seared on my mind since I saw it at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght some years ago.

Napoleon prized lucky generals. Simon Harris surely seems one.

Beverly artist’s Japanese Gyutaku works on view

The GUBU-esque melting pot of relentless RTÉ shenanigans could well be turned into a profitable ­theatrical enterprise – not so much Toy Show The Musical as ‘Coy Show the Bemuse-us-all’.

Your editorial of February 19 on the RTÉ debacle highlighted the importance of an independent, trusted and diversified media.