As an unemployed person, I’d like to congratulate Mr Jim Ronayne on his attitude to recruitment (“400 hopefuls compete for 60 McDonald’s jobs”, Irish Examiner, July 9).

It may be a lot of money to you and me but in the context of the NAMA property sale in Northern Ireland €7 million is peanuts. The basic questions which must be put to NAMA are:

The National Library website ‘about’ section on the availability of the Catholic parish records states:

I think you will find that there is rather a large difference between taking down a flag, and changing one’s mindset.

Earlier this year I read about the controversial surrogacy case in Australia where the parents opted to reject one of the twins that had been born to a surrogate mother. The twin they rejected has Down’s Syndrome.

Amnesty International seems to view abortion as a human right. Not so.

The cancellation of ‘the 1st Tel Aviv Feis’, by the Carey Academy, after “threatening messages were sent to not only our teachers, but also parents and students”, by members of the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, is, if true, disgraceful (Irish Examiner, July 8).

I listened, incredulously, to a news segment re the ECB report on Irish banks.

There is something quite pretentious about Desmond Fitzgerald’s description, (Letters July 7), of Israel as a “...successful, vibrant, progressive and equal state...” as, and not forgetting the billions of dollars of subventions from the US, the commentary from within Israel is somewhat different.

One has only to say Tuam babies and everyone reacts across the world, yet the politicians have known about what happened in these mother and baby homes for 44 years.