IN your editorial (June 28) you state it is a sign of the times for an Irish politician to attack the Pope. How right you are. The ignorant and ill-informed comments of Labour party leader Eamon Gilmore are perfectly in tune with the current wave of hysterical and equally ill-informed media attacks on Pope Benedict.

Is the glass half-empty or half-full?

OUR government should treat with extreme caution any request to supply personnel (especially military) to assist in the occupation of Iraq.