A great guy … who will be sorely missed.

Having read Tom Cooper and Peter Rogers in your letter pages, my memories have gone back to Sept 1969.

Very well done to Suzanne Harrington on yesterday’s article ‘From Russia With Love’ (Lifestyle, Aug 19).

Irish media over the weekend has given publicity and expressed concern for the safety of four Irish citizens in Cairo.

I read the article by your reporter Jimmy Woulfe (Bright Future Dawns, Aug 17) on crime and other developments following the recent conviction of criminal John Dundon, and the convictions of many others over the years. What an uplifting piece of writing.

The visit by the head of the CIA John Brennan to his family home in Co Roscommon should surely not have passed without the Government taking the opportunity to ask him about the rendition planes his organisation brought through Shannon Airport.

I agree with your correspondent Joseph Mackey (Aug 15) concerning the name ‘Red Rebels’ being redundant, but on a much broader scale. The fact is that the term ‘Rebel Cork’ is a myth, a fallacy and an oxymoron, as the reality is that Cork people have failed to display any rebel tendencies since the War of Independence.

I read with interest Victoria White’s article (Opinion, Aug 15) on our national obsession with cars as a means of transport. In an ideal world it would be lovely if cycling and public transport catered for all our travel needs.

A British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, outlined last week what priests in England are doing to inform their parishioners about fracking.

Zero hour contracts (Irish Examiner, Aug 13) are nothing more than the latest cynical use of the recession to further undermine working conditions and wages.