A POINT from a free by Colin O’Shea in the 60th minute earned Kerry a draw in a splendid All-Ireland minor football championship semi-final at Croke Park yesterday.

BRENDAN CAFFERTY asks (Letters, February 4) why can’t I admit that “some awful things were done to Protestants in our name” during the War of Independence?

IN his letter headlined ‘Why IRA killers of the Pearson boys were guilty of a war crime (December 17), Brendan Cafferty gives what appears to be very damning evidence of republicans’ attitude towards Protestants during the War of Independence.

IN his attempted defence of Shell’s Corrib gas project in Co Mayo (Letters, December 13), Brendan Cafferty has unwittingly highlighted some of its fundamental problems.

EAMON de Valera should not automatically be awarded first prize in every conflict he had with Winston Churchill.

BRENDAN CAFFERTY (Letters, November 6) seeks to take local clergy in Mayo to task because they have raised concerns over the Corrib gas pipeline. Yet in doing so the priests were only following the basic tenets of Christianity.

A DISPUTE between two men involved in the relaunch last summer of a landmark Dublin dancehall, the Ierne Ballroom, has been settled at the High Court.