This is a letter nobody should be writing at any time; I even feel a sense of guilt, because of its subject matter — the dreadful evil of the killing of children in the Gaza conflict.

Councillor Johnny Healy-Rae’s recent comments, in which he expressed the desire to slaughter every badger and deer in the country to, in his view, improve the health of the national herd-

The Urban Renewal Scheme reinvigorated many of the our towns and villages. That was welcome.

The erection of a cross in the council chamber in Kerry sets a dangerous precedent.

The speed with which our new Minister for Justice acted in giving additional powers to the GSOC, makes me recall the old adage of those who act in haste.

Ivor Callely is spending his first night in jail. But has justice has been done?

I am writing to clarify some points made by Mr Martin Sisk, president of the ILCU, in your recent article (July 25). Mr Sisk states that the proposed voluntary transfer between Berehaven Credit Union and another credit union was ‘found not to be feasible by the Central Bank’. This is incorrect.

Lack of access is Spike Island’s greatest impediment to becoming a major visitor attraction.

In her column (Opinion, July 24) Victoria White has cobbled a ragbag of factoids together in a disjointed and illogical proposal that, “we have a duty to stand with the Palestinians”.

Victoria White’s column (Opinion, July 24) on the Israel/Palestine conflict is flawed in so many ways. Here are two. First, Israel is not a colonial state and was not created as the result of “the mania for ethnic cleansing that started in Russia,” whatever that means.