Your article (Irish Examiner, July 3) on the passing of the late Val Doonican rightly notes the widespread regret at the departure of such a popular and unassuming entertainer.

Is Busaras really “a masterpiece of modern architecture” as Ellen Rowley said in ‘Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks’?

It cannot be possible Daniel Teegan (Letters, July 4) believes that a one state solution in the Middle East was ever or will ever be possible. 

With the announcement, last week, of a fixed-charge fine system for cyclists who breach road traffic laws, there has been an increase

“It’s unlikely that his testimony has changed many minds that have long been made up about his role in these matters.”

A meeting of members of the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) in Cork in recent days drew a capacity attendance and denounced a number of government measures. We heard that rent control or certainty cannot be reintroduced in Ireland as a viable solution to the housing situation.

Plans for a new hospital in Cork have been touted by a Fine Gael TD and senator in recent days, just as a general election beckons. 

The establishment of a Zionist state in the middle of the Arab world for Jewish migrants from Europe was only possible due to the complicity of Western powers and their vested interests .

In 2010, the Troika imposed a program of what is politely termed ‘fiscal adjustment’ on Greece, which, by the IMF’s own admission at the time would be “tough, difficult and painful’.

I wish to support the postmasters’ recent appeal to withdraw from circulation new social protection forms which recommend payment through banks, and discourage use of post offices.