I am amazed by newly-appointed [Arts] Minister Heather Humphreys widely reported comments that the upcoming 1916 commemorations "belongs to everyone".

Your correspondent (Letters, July 29) carries a sinister subtext.

As Israel continues to wage horror and unimaginable devastation on the besieged, captive population of Gaza, we ask how much longer will that state be allowed to act with impunity in its breaches of international law against the Palestinian people?

"Conquerors of every age attempted to lessen the character of the conquered that they might in a plausible appearance of justice impose their yoke upon them" — John O’Donovan, May 19, 1836.

Victoria White’s inflammatory column ‘We are washing our hands of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (July 31), uses the revisionist interpretation of Ilan Pappe to depict the founding of Israel in 1948 as an imposed Nakba (catastrophe) on the indigenous Palestinian Arabs of the era.

Many years ago on one of my early visits to the holy island of Sceilg Mhichíl there was much talk at the time of the work being done on the high pinnacle above the island’s saddle.

Our beautiful game of hurling is being destroyed by the tendency for match officials to ignore the 4 step rule with ball in hand. Time and time again goals are scored by forwards taking five, six and even eight steps.

I don’t want to be unfair but what Callan’s Kicks really needs is someone who can do a take off of a scriptwriter.

The NUI Galway Palestine Solidarity Society condemns Ireland’s abstention from the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on the Gaza enquiry.

A housing crisis in a country with lots of vacant homes. It would seem a joke if it were not so serious.