All are equal but some are more equal than others. So say the bankers.

Glowing tributes have been paid to the late great Jimmy Doyle.

Daniel Teegan (Irish Examiner, Letters 25/6/15) distorts the reality of Israel, saying it is a continuation of Western colonialism in the Middle East.

Treating Gardaí as ‘blue collar workers’, pardon the cliché, is despicable. While sneaking pay cuts in the back door is downright insulting.

Daniel Teegan is ignorant of history (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 25). He bemoans the creation of Israel, in 1948, on the basis that the Palestinians lived there for thousands of years.

Last week, it was announced that Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney approved the appointment of Raymond O’Rourke and Brody Sweeney (both failed Fine Gale Candidates) to Bord Bia.

The Norbertine order of priests, in Ireland, was ruined not by the poisonous legacy of Brendan Smyth, but in letting him be ordained against well-founded advice.

My recent letter on the clear difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism has hit the mark, judging by the urgent flurry of outrage that it has elicited from Israeli government apologists, in the form of Clive Hyman, of London, and Kevin McCarthy (Irish Examiner, June 23).

The flaw in a subjective definition of a word like ‘anti-semitism’ is that usage will only result in confusion. One of your correspondents (Irish Examiner, June 22) overlooked this.

Regarding Ryle Dwyer’s article (Irish Examiner, June 25), the modern reader should understand that in the early 20th century wrestling, biting, mauling and sleeping together was not uncommon among young men, most times with no homosexual connotations.