Photos of the casualties in Gaza are truly appalling and no-one could fail to be moved by them.

Shane O’Doherty in his letter “We must condemn Hamas as we did the paramilitaries” (August 9) makes parallels with the IRA campaign and Hamas in Palestine. 

As former internees and Hooded Men we call on people to support and attend this Sunday’s anti-internment march in Ardoyne, Belfast. 

Further to the comment, in the Irish Examiner, Friday, August 7, that the Government is under pressure to revisit the nuclear option. 

At this time of year, every year, the media highlights the expense of children going back to school. It is expensive to raise a child, and there are issues in the system that could be looked at. But I can’t understand how people constantly say that there’s not “free education”.

There may be some people who having experienced the trauma of a loved one’s suicide will gain a certain solace from the new short form death certificate that the Tánaiste Joan Burton intends to introduce.

I am 71 years old and I live with my wife. Both of us are in poor health.

Animal rights organisation PETA’s latest campaign, showing a human leg served up with vegetables, is proof that they have lost the run of themselves.

In coming to terms with the 1910-1923 period that created the Irish republic, we must not play the game of ‘if’.

Many Irishmen working in England at the outbreak of World War 1 enlisted in English regiments. One was Thomas Kedian, of Moneymore, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, my grand-uncle.