The announcement of grandiose plans to redevelop Clerys department store in Dublin strikes like a trespass on public patience while the former Clerys’ employees flounder in frustration, anger and bewilderment for some semblance of dignity, validation and due process.

In his criticism (Letters, June 16) of Brendan O’Brien, Dr Kevin McCarthy professes not to understand the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. 

At a meeting in Wynne’s Hotel this week, 300 Irish Property Owners’ Association (IPOA) members vented their fury at the proposed introduction of rent control/certainty by the Government.

I have to take issue with the sentiments expressed in Cath O’Leary’s letter in last week’s Irish Examiner (Letters, June 9). She lamented that 223 dogs were put down in the Cork County pound last year.

The sudden closing of Clerys has shocked many people, especially older customers, who loved nothing more than to browse around or have a coffee in this lovely, iconic department store.

All we hear is that Greece must pay ‘its €357bn of debts, but that debt is never broken down. 

The New York Times newspaper (June 16, 2015) took a few sensational stories of Irish J1 visa users to distort the experience we gained from summer jobs in the US.

Can we now look forward to rubbing shoulders with Denis O’Brien in the Ryanair priority queue?

Irish oppositions politicians have called on the Government to secure the release of an Irish citizen, Ibrahim Halawa, who is awaiting trial in Cairo. While visiting family there, Halawa became involved in anti-government demonstrations.

After watching the documentary, Collusion, on BBC on Monday night, and after reading Ann Cadwalladar’s book, I am struggling to understand how innocent people could have been murdered with the support of the British establishment. Why was nothing done in the South?