One reader champions the Citizens’ Assembly on biodiversity loss, while others consider issues including Irish sovereignty, Russia's war on Ukraine, and recent attacks on libraries

'When you have determination and sovereignty over land and water, and we can exercise our right to protect land and water, then we will see less extraction, and we see less pollution.'

Had last week’s rugby game between Wales and Ireland been played in normal circumstances, then a minor military tattoo might have been offered as a stir-the-juices aperitif.

The Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin is to reinstall four statues it removed from outside its premises earlier this year.