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Letters

Why Paisley is untouchable in his own church

Your correspondent Rev Mervyn Cotton has raised an interesting question as to the silence from the Free Presbyterian pulpits (Write Back, February 26).
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Inside Letters

Cardinal should step down

Saturday, 20 March 2010

As a consequence of the child sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland it is only fit and proper that Cardinal Brady resigns his position to signal the end of a sorry chapter in its history on the island of Ireland.
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McGuinness' criticism of Brady is pure hypocrisy

Saturday, 20 March 2010

The gut-churning hypocrisy of Martin McGuinness apparently knows no bounds.
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Pipe up about the Prize Band

Saturday, 20 March 2010

I AM writing an article about a pipe band which once marched and played at sports and festivals throughout Co Down.
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Communities need to look to the future

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Having looked at the recent proposals for the future of Catholic education, I can't help but feel that they present a radical, yet thoughtful, attempt to match the actual needs of a modern economy with the provision of a professional and modern education system.
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Lobby our MPs on 'grey issues'

Friday, 19 March 2010

Recently I was pleased to get the first instalment of my state pension. I was less pleased to receive notification that I would lose 25% of my pension through taxation.
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TUV MP is the best choice for South Antrim

Friday, 19 March 2010

David Cather (Write Back, March 16) believes that it is possible to be sick to one's stomach at Sinn Fein/IRA being in Government while at the same time being instrumental in republicans obtaining that position. It seems, therefore, that the DUP likes self-inflicted nausea.
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Pound the pavements for charity

Friday, 19 March 2010

There are only a few weeks left until the Virgin London Marathon and runners are pounding the pavements in preparation.
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Why am I still waiting?

Friday, 19 March 2010

I ATTENDED the RVH on Friday September 22, 2009 for an MRI scan. In spite of repeated requests from my GP, we are still awaiting the results.
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UK being ruled by Brussels is just bananas

Friday, 19 March 2010

I REFER to an article in the Belfast Telegraph on March 3 entitled 'Europe is going bananas again, warns Nicholson', in which the MEP says that Spanish MEPs have tabled a motion to re-introduce legislation on misshapen fruit.
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Calling all electioneers

Friday, 19 March 2010

Taking part in this year's election? I would like to invite any Belfast Telegraph readers who might be a candidate at the UK General Election, or who plan to act as an agent for a party or independent candidate, to one of our information seminars.
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Vote for Macmillan

Thursday, 18 March 2010

I AM writing to raise awareness of Macmillan's Vote Cancer Support campaign.
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Why could Tyrone Crystal not be saved?

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Night after night we are treated to those silly stick people adverts spouting nonsense about how easy it is to start your own business.
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Cardinal's lack of Christianity

Thursday, 18 March 2010

I WAS an admirer of Cardinal Sean Brady until hearing him on radio this week trying to defend his actions in 1975 by claiming that "standards were different then".
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New proposals for prep schools are 'madness'

Thursday, 18 March 2010

It is with dismay and a deepening sense of despondency that I read of Department of Education plans to cut the small amount of remaining funding to preparatory departments of grammar schools.
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Hang on to your education vision, Mike

Thursday, 18 March 2010

How disappointing that your report on the Ulster Unionist Westminster candidate Mike Nesbitt (March 13) chose to emphasise the negative rather than the positive aspects of his vision for the future of education in Northern Ireland.
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All pupils are entitled to a rounded education

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

In Saturday's Belfast Telegraph (March 13) it was suggested, among other things, that I was critical of our Education Minister for scrapping the transfer test.
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Sexist attack was unfair and unjustified

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

I AM shocked at the sexism of Jane Graham's column on Carol Vorderman (March 12). On Question Time, Carol Vorderman was at times aggressive and did not listen enough to fellow panellists. She expressed views that Jane Graham did not agree with.
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