I am encouraged by your practical commitment to the care of migrants as reported in the Irish Examiner (1st and 3rd September 2015) and support the proposal for an interagency forum.

Maybe the pictures of the drowned little Syrian boy has finally awakened our conscience to the refugee crisis. We need a radical change of approach.

With the reaction of our politicians to PSNI comments, I was reminded of the self-serving agenda of those we send to Dail Eireann.

Desmond Fitzgerald is hypocritical for criticising those of us who advocate a generous national response to the humanitarian tragedy in the Mediterranean ( Letters, September 3).

Congratulations on publishing Margaret Hickey’s excellent summary on timeless Church teaching/tradition and how it relates to present events.

The horror of the elite, and much of the media, in both the South and the North, at the possibility of Sinn Féin being in government come the 1916 Rising celebrations is remarkable. With elections pending, much of the onslaught on Sinn Féin is prompted by party political considerations.

It’s embarrassing to read of WW2 and the Holocaust and realise that Ireland was found severely wanting in taking in Jewish refugees. 

“ I’m sorry, but sometimes you have to be blunt to get the message through.”

The media rarely asks why there is a flood of people trying to get into Europe.

Thanks to Margaret Hickey for her well-argued defence of Bishop William Crean’s actions in respect of a misguided invitation to priest, Tony Flannery, to abandon his silence and promote his Protestant ideas on Catholic premises.