Kevin Devitte writes of Croagh Patrick (Irish Examiner, Letters, July 30): “It’s for those who seek God in bare feet”.

The recovery of the bodies of the victims of people smugglers (‘Packed in like sardines in a tin’, Irish Examiner, July 29) has underlined the need for our naval service to continue in the search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

The Irish Water saga reminds me of those old Hammer Dracula movies from the 1960s starring Christopher Lee as the eponymous count.

St Stanislaus Kennedy, Br Kevin Crowley and Fr Peter McVerry are all Catholics who are known for their struggle for social justice.

A few numbers are enough to refute the propaganda which Zoe Lawlor (Letters, July 29) repeats without a nod towards the facts.

I’ve listened to various media outlets talk about the Confederate Flag. I’m deeply offended that as a Cork supporter, who has carried the flag at matches, I am to be categorised with bigoted racist people from another continent.

Why do some humans feel the need to inflict suffering on animals for ‘sport’? I ask myself that question yet again after reading about the dentist who paid $55,000 for the privilege of killing Zimbabwe’s oldest and best loved lion.

Dermot Meleady claimed that for Jewish refugees of the Nazi holocaust, Palestine was “…their only available refuge…”

Derek O’Flynn, press officer of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin (Letters, July 15) seemed a little confused as to the meaning of solidarity with Palestine, which of course goes back to the original ethnic cleansing, Al Nakba, carried out by what became the state of Israel, in 1948.

As a staunch GAA man I object to Conor McCarthy’s article (Irish Examiner, July 17)