May I add my voice to that of Maurice Murphy (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 25). He is correct to say that minimum pricing is everything to do with revenue. Just look at the Government’s attitude to health, in terms of the HSE.

Labour TDs would not agree to the sale of Aer Lingus without the deficit in the pension scheme being addressed. 

There are two indelibly weaved strands of information highly relevant to the current standoff playing out between Greece and its creditors but which the mainstream European media isn’t currently allocating much room to the discussion of.

For hundreds of years, Ireland was under the control of the Crown, economically, politically and socially.

I am writing re Charles Hayes’ contention, (Letters 22 June) that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism, the first being a moral stance and the latter being, “pernicious..”. 

The archaeological ‘dig’ to locate the remains of executed 1916 man Thomas Kent in Collins Barracks Cork, with a view to a subsequent pomp-and-circumstance reburial, is surely an ill-conceived and undignified project.

It’s not just because of the current Greek problem, there is ongoing turbulence with the euro. Ireland already had its share. Then there was Cyprus and Portugal.

Failte Ireland has finally woken up to the potential of historic tourism in our capital city. (Irish Examiner, June 23).

An anti-Zionist is someone who is opposed to that sector of the Jewish population who see it as their God-given right to establish a Jewish state in the Holy Land at the expense of the Palestinian people who have lived there for thousands of years.

This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights published its concluding observations on Ireland, finding the Government is failing to deliver on human rights obligations.