Enda Kenny’s claim at the recent Michael Collins commemoration that Lenin visited Ireland at Collins’ behest has been proven to be false. However, there is an extremely slim possibility that Collins may have encountered Lenin in London.

Barry Walsh states Enda Kenny took a pay cut (Letters, Aug 23) but he is mistaken.

I am extremely disappointed that the permanent high visibility garda presence of the high visibility garda van on the traffic island on O’Connell Street in Dublin, opposite the GPO, seems to have been only a temporary publicity stunt to give temporary reassurance to those of us who work around the area, as well as to shoppers and tourists.

I refer to the remarks from Cardinal Brady in relation to the possible legislation by the Government and, in a ironic twist, the Sunday reading from the Church was “An extract from a letter from Saint Paul to Ephesians 5:21-32” and I quote: “Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord…”, “.. And as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything.”

RIP Neil Armstrong.

How ironic that in an article about slips and errors in recent speeches by the Taoiseach (“Kenny’s got the facts and tone wrong”, Aug 25), Michael Clifford should come up with the wonderful line about “the Blueshirts raising [Michael Collins] to the top of their petard”.

As a retired public servant, I find it troubling that RTÉ, who in these difficult times cover such topics as unemployment and emigration in their programming, yet have no difficulty in retaining the same broadcasters for decades — some are now in their 70s and predominantly male.

Driving home last week I was listening to the radio and heard the head of a local authority bemoaning the lack of funding, and that the €100 household charge was not being paid by everyone.

The recent report into the treatment of senior citizens at a Galway nursing home is both terrifying and disturbing and made very sad reading.

Tom Cooper (Aug 25th) rightly points out the brutality associated with the Black and Tans.