TO add to Gerry McCarthy’s fine article on Christchurch (April 14).

YOUR columnist Matt Cooper (April 15), commenting on the imminent arrival of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland, displays an abject servility towards British royalty not seen since former Taoiseach John Bruton grovellingly referred to his meeting with Prince Charles in 1995 as ‘the happiest day of my life’.

I NOTE that Ajai Chopra has stated that, for us in Ireland, “it is an Irish solution to an Irish problem”.

I WOULD like to make a few points regarding how Irish speakers were treated by the Central Statistics Office in this year’s census, 2011.

IT IS pitiful to watch Séan Quinn’s empire collapse in front of his very eyes.

IT is certainly regrettable that members of An Garda Síochána should have made such degrading and threatening remarks to the two female protesters who were arrested while interfering with the development of the Corrib gas pipeline.

I WOULD like to commend John Daly for his letter (April 15) regarding the IGB’s plan to send Irish greyhounds to China.

EVERY other day in these pages we read of sleaze, financial shenanigans and abuse of position by politicians and those in the upper echelons of our public services and semi-state bodies.