As I walked along the footpath of one of Cork city’s main streets recently, I came across an articulate young man sitting on the pavement; his back against the wall; asking passers-by for change. I gave him some.

After the terrible attacks in Paris where 130 people were murdered, it makes me think of Gaza — as there are similarities and hypocritical differences.

When the Black and Tans and their Auxiliaries had sacked and burned and shot up our country in a terror campaign in 1920’s War of Independence, General Tom Barry said a stop had to be put to them,

I write to clarify a matter. In his letter of November 18 (Irish Examiner), Myles Duffy mistakenly states that Aras an Uachtaráin sanctions or accredits diplomats to Ireland below the rank of ambassador, and that the President has a role in determining the size of Ireland’s diplomatic presence in our embassies overseas.