As protests against the use of wild animals by the Austrian Circus Belly Wien/Renz currently touring the country grow stronger by the day, its increasingly beleaguered spokesperson has taken to claiming in media interviews that its animals are happy, because several camels have given birth since arriving here.

Gerard Howlin (Opinion, March 30) rightly praises the early leaders of this State for cementing our Parliamentary Institutions.

Hopefully, your correspondent (Irish Examiner, Letters, March 28) Diarmuid P Ó Luasa’s subtle but magnificent irony will not be lost on Ms Ruth Dudley Edwards.

Once again a leading member of a morally defective and hypocritical Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign casually and without a shred of empirical evidence accuses Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East, of “ethnic cleansing; violence and murder” (Letters, April 1).

Dan Kiely, CEO of Voxpro, (Irish Examiner, April 2) said “the decision of the electorate in February’s general election was abundantly clear. The people want change and stability.”

Nothing illustrates how selective we can be on the question of 1916 than the following story which is, apparently, quite true.