Jack O’Neill (Irish Examiner, November 11 ) asks why criticism of other countries is a precondition of criticising Israel. Well, because standards and human rights are measured comparatively.

A performance management and development system was introduced into the civil service in 2000. Annual assessments were based on a five-point rating scale for each of the 36,000 members of staff.

In his reply to my letter, Derek O’Flynn of the Israeli Embassy ( Letters, November 6) inadvertently admits to the Apartheid system that exists in the West Bank, when he argues that the water Israel allows to them is two thirds that available to Israeli settlers.

Noel Harrington (Irish Examiner, November 10 ) raises the question of the Catholic Church making a significant contribution to the matter of homelessness and wonders about its silence on the issue.

Now that the British Army has handed two of its own over to the justice system, might Adams and his Sinn Féin aides hand over the murderers of Jean McConville — or do they lack the magairlí?

It has been reported (and discussed on air) that one of the country’s most dangerous sex offenders is back on the streets.