It has emerged that in the fishing industry too there are workers who are victims of trafficking.

Regarding the Syrian ‘refugee’ crisis, why isn’t the Arab League, which consists of 22 countries — and some of the wealthiest countries on this earth including Dubai, UAE and Saudi Arabia — being more proactive towards those they consider their Muslim brothers and sisters.

I cannot understand why Ms Buckley claims that nobody knew that two wind turbines were to be erected in Boolard, Co. Cork (Irish Examiner, November 3). I knew about it and I know several other local people know about it as well.

The silence of the Catholic church on homelessness is mindblowing. Land is needed to build modular homes to house people and one of the largest landowners in this country is the Catholic Church.

In Zoe Lawlor’s latest denial of reality, she inserts herself in the narrative of Palestinian victimisation claiming to have been “attacked and kidnapped in international waters while sailing to Gaza, robbed and repeatedly strip searched, imprisoned for a week, shot at with steel-coated rubber bullets and tear gas” (Letters, 9 November).

If your surname is Kyle or a descendant of a lady named Maggie Kyle the following will be of interest. I have in my possession an antique ‘Robinson Crusoe’.