James Plunkett described the Irish people of 1914 as the “Risen People”.

DENNIS BERGKAMP is proud of his Arsenal legacy as he prepares for his final appearance in the famous red and white shirt.

IN reporting ‘Orange Day’ (Irish Examiner, July 13), you quote Rev Ian Paisley as saying, at an Independent Orange Order demonstration in Portrush, it would be “over our dead bodies” that his party, the DUP, would enter into a power-sharing executive with Sinn Féin.

IN expressing a welcome for the Galway Council of Trade Union’s motion to the ICTU’s annual conference in Belfast to declare July 12 a national holiday “in recognition of other traditions on the island of Ireland”...

I WELCOME the move by Galway Council of Trade Unions to have July 12 declared a national holiday “in recognition of the other traditions in the island of Ireland, and in furtherance of the peace process.”