I am an old man, like Simeon was when he held the child Jesus in his arms.

The elation of the Irish electorate in March 2011 quickly turned to deflation and angst.

Recently, I was listening when the usual ‘it’s a disgrace’ brigade on the Joe Duffy’s Liveline show bemoaned the sale of 20 GAA games to Sky Sports for this year’s Championship.

I am concerned at the GAA/Sky Sports deal. The ethos of the GAA is community, social cohesion, participation, inclusiveness and a certain egalitarianism — yes there are top or elite players, but they are not more important than those who run street leagues, line pitches and wash jerseys.

It’s not too late for the GAA to advise Sky to broadcast its games Freeview in Ireland only, as Croke Park is insisting it did this deal for the benefit for our overseas citizens only.

I read with interest Hannah McNeish’s article (Irish Examiner, April 4) which remembered the Rwandan genocide of 1994 when as many as 800,000 ethnic Tutsis were murdered by the Hutu majority.

In your letters page, (Examiner 3/4/’14), Kathleen O’Meara of the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) rejects the latest figures on smuggled tobacco, but she would say that, wouldn’t she?

I am shocked by the decision of the powers that be in the GAA, an association of which my family and I are ardent members, to sell out to Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Inc.

Two articles, in the same edition of the (Irish Examiner, March 28) elegantly expose EirGrid’s dilemma in regard to the Government’s plan to meet EU 2020 targets for renewable energy by doubling the amount of on-shore wind power in the Irish system.

Two items in particular caught my attention in your paper recently.