WHAT a contrast between the factual, objective letter from Pat Swords (April 24) on the reality of the situation in Ukraine and the misleading whinge from Dónal de Róiste whose letter (April 24) was a deliberate attempt to make people’s flesh creep, but it certainly was not based on fact.

Donal de Roiste may have been the youngest ever public servant in Irish history to have retired.

THE High Court yesterday quashed a report of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) who concluded that a decision to forcibly retire a young Irish Army lieutenant in 1969 had been at that time “reasonable”.

THE reported comment by Ms Monica Duffy-Campbell (whose husband Tom was murdered in the 1972 Dublin bombing) that the British and Irish governments engaged in “collusion” concerning the bombings comes as no surprise to the family of Garda Richard Fallon.

A FORMER Presidential candidate and founder of the Chernobyl Children’s Project will be cheering on her niece when she makes history by competing in the Rose of Tralee festival.

OMAGH bomb victim Michael Gallagher, following the recent meeting with Justice Minister Michael McDowell, said the minister “would not be drawn on the subject of the McNally Report”. This should send a chill down the spine of every advocate of free speech.

Actor Gabriel Byrne is to launch a US campaign to pressure the Irish Government to reveal the truth behind the expulsion of Donal de Roiste from the Irish army in 1969.

ACTOR Gabriel Byrne is to extend to the US a campaign to clear the name of an Irish army lieutenant sacked without explanation more than 30 years ago.

A former Irish army lieutenant who was retired from the Defence Forces by former President Eamon de Valera has launched an international campaign to clear his name.