The Rally for Life, last Saturday, in Dublin, was attended by 25,000 to 30,000 people from all over the country.

Congratulations to both Cork and Kerry for a brilliant game of football last Sunday. A special congratulations to the Rebels, for restoring pride in Cork football.

Greece has to pay its debts, but the banks didn’t have to pay theirs — we paid theirs.

Cormac Williams of the Psychiatric Nurses’ Association (Letters, Irish Examiner, July 8) mentions the sick leave ‘entitlement’ of front line workers being cut. Interesting he uses the word ‘entitlement’.

Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, Opinion, July 7) argues that Fianna Fail tried to buy elections in the last decade and said that cautious advice was dismissed as being “the views of ‘left wing pinkos’”.

I was angered to read the second front-page story for last Saturday’s edition ‘€140k for woman who had swab left inside her’ (Irish Examiner, July 4). 

Exposing Israelis as serial perpetrators of injustice is not anti-Jewish. Anyone who makes objective, rational observations in advocating basic human rights and civilised dignity for Palestinians is criticised. 

I have heard many politicians say ‘I have been democratically elected’.

Last Saturday, I participated in the Rally for Life, in Dublin. 

Of all the proposals to ‘force’ banks to reduce punitive variable interest rates, the most comically laughable is the proposal to ‘name and shame’.