Jack O’Neill (Irish Examiner, September 26) displays an ignorance of factual history.

Congratulations to Michelle Murphy for her excellent article regarding people’s over-use of smartphones (Irish Examiner, September 28).

On September 30, Richard Glossip came within hours of death in an Oklahoma prison before being granted a temporary stay of execution. 

I had the pleasure of attending “Céilí Cois Locha” at The Lough this summer. Oh God — what a session.

We have had water supplied through our taps for many years, paid for, in my lifetime, first by rates and then through national exchequer funding. Now, with a consultancy cost of €80m, it becomes Uisce Éireann and we are going to have to pay water rates.

Encouraged by the excitement in certain media circles about UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn I have spent the last three days in Brighton and have listened to his various outpourings.

Recently we have heard reports of elderly persons being attacked and robbed by criminals.

The other day I saw one of the first Christmas ads on television, and I thought, “Christmas is here already!”

The government’s proposed capping of rents has been tried unsuccessfully in several other jurisdictions in the past, without solving the housing problem. It was tried in Italy in the 1970s but later abandoned because the net result was a drop in the amount of housing available as landlords exited the market.

The inevitable has come to pass.