The proposal by Agriculture & Defence Minister Simon Coveney to reform and regulate fur farming rather than ban it is typical of the Fine Gael led government’s "Pontius Pilate" like attitude to animal welfare.

The UN Human Rights Committee’s criticism of Ireland’s abortion law is ideologically contaminated reinterpretation of solemn treaty obligations to "provide appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth’ to every child "without exception".

I write in response to the article "Blood-thinning drug’s guidelines may be flawed" (Irish Examiner, July 23).

I recently spent 10 days in The Mercy Hospital in St Catherine’s Ward under respiratory consultant Dr David Curran.

I would like to personally apologise to all the Palestinian people for my Government’s "abstention" in the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry into the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the slaughter of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

Israel’s invasion of Gaza was described on RTÉ Radio 1 morning news of July 24 as an ‘offensive against militants’.

Charles J Haughey at his first Fianna Fáil Ardfheis in 1980 as Taoiseach, correctly described the 6 counties as a "failed political entity".

I would like to express my outrage and embarrassment that this government used its place on the inter-governmental Human Rights Council to do absolutely nothing about the atrocities in Gaza.

I’ve come across a few daft ideas in my day but the latest "brainwave" from the Government takes beating — €100 in four quarterly payments will be given to 415,000 households so they can pay their annual water charges.

In 1951, 14,000 salmon were caught on the River Lee between the draught nets and rods. In 1957, the inniscarra Hydro Scheme opened to generate electricity. In 1961, 141 salmon were caught.