Those of us among the 700,000 citizens who voted ‘no’ in the same-sex marriage referendum are faced with a conundrum, facing up to the next general election.

When I was a child, the political mantra of the time was ‘draining the Shannon’.

I have to write this letter to voice my concerns about the 1916 celebrations centenary. I am extremely anxious that there may be anti-English sentiments in TV programmes, etc that might influence impressionable young people.

Since the House of Commons voted for war on 1 December against ISIS the RAF have mounted only three strike missions, and may have dropped only 19 bombs. The RAF manned missions were against the Omar oilfield which had already been incapacitated by an American attack 6-weeks previously.

The Revolution Papers’ efforts at providing a critique of the 1916 Proclamation, in its much-heralded first issue are pedestrian, biased and lacking in historical perspective.

Alison O’Connor (Irish Examiner, Jan 8) tells how the cuddly Greens make a nice, harmless, side salad political option, but do they?