We have entered the third week of displacement hoping that our cry will reach the world. We continue to share our daily struggle of providing shelter, food and necessities for the people. People are still living on the streets outside our schools that are now used as refugee centres.

The twice-weekly Cork to Brussels air service is shortly to be ended and Cork politicians, from Government and opposition parties alike, as well as Chamber of Commerce officials, are all screeching about what the loss will do to Cork Airport.

The ECB has dropped its interest rate to 0.05%. What we are witnessing is the death throes of banking as we know it.

Wasn’t it outrageously hypocritical of President Michael D Higgins to visit homeless families in Dublin?

In her letter published on September 9, Dr Orla Lynch rightly refers to the responsibilities of democratically-elected governments, but seems to apply this solely to Israel.

If, as the government claim, the state has regained its economic sovereignty, why does the government need permission from our EU ’partners’ to borrow at a reduced rate in order to reduce the amount the state owes the IMF? 

For the record: Michael Clifford is too knowledgeable a journalist to be allowed misrepresent me (Irish Examiner, September 5) in respect of the 2012 TV programme The Week in Politics. 

In an article in the Irish Examiner on September 4, the Nobel laureate, Sir Paul Nurse, said politicians should be “crushed and buried” for cherry-picking science to suit agendas, including in relation to climate change.

It seems to me that the 1937 Constitution had two main objectives; one to make Republican ideology the State ideology and two to suck up to the Catholic Church for political power for Éamon de Valera and Fianna Fáil. 

No, the anti-Israeli position is not disguised anti-semitism. It cannot be repeated often enough that this canard repeated endlessly by Irish commentators from Gerard Howlin (Opinion, September 3) to UCC historian Kevin McCarthy is complete nonsense. It represents intellectual laziness of a noxious kind propagated by men with exceptional literary ability and all the worse for that.