I note the recent fuss regarding the arrival of a certain number of discount beer and expensive coffee chains to our city. I am reliably informed they are most pleased at the free publicity,

If a certain type of Muslim is offended by a cartoon then no one is forcing them to look at it and if a picture of someone crying because innocent people were slaughtered in his name, then it is the moral duty of media to publish the front page of Hebdo on its front page.

Will we ever learn? The proposed shoehorning of the new events centre into the constricted site of the old Beamish brewery must be one of the most ill-advised decisions made by the planners and burghers of Cork City Council.

When Charles Hayes wonders if Israel’s objection to Palestine’s membership of the International Criminal Court is a fear that Benjamin Netanyahu “and his government officials might find themselves in the dock”, (Letters, January 14), it echoes a polemic of Robert Fisk.

December 29, 2014, marked the 124th anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee (South Dakota), where 153 members of a band of 350 Minneconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota (120 men, 230 women and children), unarmed and in the act of surrender, were slaughtered by members of four divisions of the US Army’s Seventh Cavalry. 

Your editorial yesterday (Irish Examiner, January 14) about lack of political reform reeks of hypocrisy.

We, the undersigned, express serious reservations about the recently published draft terms of reference of the forthcoming southern Irish inquiry into mother and baby homes, and related matters.

May I express concern at the report of an agreement on defence co-operation between Ireland and the UK, due to be signed later this month.

The headline “Al-Qaeda’s Revenge” (Saturday, January 10) caught me by surprise.

We all must condemn such unlawful aggression as we saw in Paris last week but we must also try to parse and probe what happened.