Almost 30,000 Irish men and women who died in the First World War will be remembered today on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict.

While the words on the banner hung in front of Liberty Hall (‘We serve neither King nor Kaiser but Ireland’) still resonate a century on, representing the values of a patriotic anti-imperialist neutrality, they mask an historical reality that was a good deal more complex than is generally allowed (Letters, July 4).

UP to 95% of lesbians and gays are not really homosexual but “sexual perverts”, a Belgian cardinal claimed yesterday.