We were recently in your beautiful country, but our holiday was marred by the loss of our camera, at Muckross National Park, Killarney, on July 1. The person who found our Sony Cybershot has not handed it into the Gardaí nor to a tourist office.

Zoe Lawlor and Mags O’Brien (Letters, August 1) are justifiably outraged about the devastation being wrought on the Palestinian people of Gaza.

I should like to comment on Michael Clifford’s

I read with interest Michael Clifford’s article of July 26 (‘A blustery reception for wind turbines as locals voice their opposition’) which reported that a local woman, Marina Reilly from Castletown, Co Meath, was given an assurance by the Taoiseach that health problems would be taken into account in the review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines.

The newspapers are criticising Israel regarding Gaza. To love and support the Jewish state may seem like defending the indefensible, but much truth is left out in the media reports.

Yet again, the summer school in Glenties, which bears the name of Patrick MacGill, has ignored both the writer and his participation in World War 1. That this should be the case in the war’s centenary year is a glaring omission.

Anthony J Jordan tells us that 100 years ago Arthur Griffith advised that a "provisional government be set up in Dublin" by John Redmond and Edward Carson (Letters, August 4).

Re Cllr Michael Gleeson’s letter (August 1) about the proliferation of Japanese knotweed in this country — I agree that it’s time the authorities (Dept of Agriculture, etc) woke up and took this devastating weed seriously.

Last week, Glasnevin cemetery had a ceremony for Irish service men and women who served in World Wars 1 and 2, and for WWI’s 100th anniversary.

Arthur Griffith was a member of the Volunteers and at the Howth gunrunning.