Terry Prone tells us in relation to the American presidential election that ‘the rest of the Republican candidates for the nomination ... have to cope with rampant hatred, as a tool deployed by (Donald) Trump’ (Irish Examiner, January 11).

Danny Morrison is a fine writer. He is also ‘a good republican’ as Gerry Adams might say. He is not much of an historian. (Irish Examiner, Monday 11).

After a meeting of Trinity College Dublin’s Heads of Schools on December 9, a request was sent to college departments seeking “your help on the best way to collect data on existing formal and informal arrangements that your school and colleges may have with universities, research institutions, NGOs and government bodies in Israel and Palestine.

The wisdom of Marian Richardson’s advice (Irish Examiner, Weekend, January 9) — “The piece of advice I would like to pass onto the next generation is that nobody is looking at you.

Following the execution of 47 men in Saudi Arabia on January 2, the situation in the Middle East is deteriorating. 

In his letter of January 4, Joe Brennan complained about the ECB being ‘most shameful’ in its treatment of Ireland.

Being pro-life essentially means recognising that the unborn have a natural right to life which takes precedence over the rights of women to end that life.