When the Palestinian Authority applied recently for Palestine to join the International Criminal Court, Israel responded by immediately confiscating vital Palestinian tax-funds.

Last Friday marked a day of hope mixed with despair. I, a natural mother, sat and listened to the proposed terms and references of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.

I refer to your article last month (December 18), about my late uncle, Michael Sheehan, which was written in consultation with Tony Lowes.

A comedy on the Great Famine is outrageous and insulting. Imagine treating likewise the Holocaust, 911, or the Paris massacre?

It was heartening to see millions of French citizens unite and march in Paris in support of the victims of the ‘Charlie’ massacre. People came together to make their voices heard, rallying in support of their not-so-lucky fellow citizens.

Why don’t the “powers that be’ in Croke Park leave our great game of hurling alone? They are forever tinkering with the rules.

These pages recently revealed the plight of a woman whose electricity bill was in arrears and who endured Christmas without power (‘I’ve had no electricity since October and the privateers leave me cold’, January 6). 

The tragedy in Paris has left France in a complex situation.

It has been suggested that a diaspora centre be located on the site of the old bonded warehouses at the Port of Cork. But it’s a shame, given Cork Harbour’s long tradition, that we don’t have a maritime museum in Cork. Passage West would be an ideal location:

Je ne suis pas Charlie.