More than 100 protesters from around the world will gather for a summit in Limerick today to demand the US military stop refueling at Shannon airport.

In recent times, our Defence Forces have been treated with serious neglect bordering on irresponsibility by Irish governments.

Perhaps your editorial (April 1), on Nato’s 70th anniversary was intended as an April Fool joke...

Far from bringing freedom and democracy to these countries, US intervention left all of them is chaos.

Revelations about child sexual abuse in the Irish scouting movement are truly shocking.

In 1847 the Choctaw Indians donated $170 toward famine relief in Ireland.

We must all welcome the statement by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to Pope Francis, that there must be zero tolerance towards those who abuse children and facilitate that abuse.

The winning of the All-Ireland hurling final by Limerick was joyous. But it is likely that the occasion was spoiled by repeated singing of ‘Sean South of Garryowen’, a song associated with IRA violence.

There are very few people who have made such a significant contribution to securing the peace everyone on this island enjoys today as former US senator George Mitchell.

Corralling people into concentration camps and abusing their human rights neither began nor ended with the Holocaust.

President Michael D Higgins has said the “burden of homelessness will overshadow the festive season for those deprived of a secure and permanent shelter”.

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

The death of Liam T Cosgrave is being greeted with genuine sadness by the vast majority of Irish people of all political persuasions.

The Department of Defence has defended the decision to send a flagship navy vessel to the world's biggest arms fair.

Genocide is defined as “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”. 

Three million armed US troops transiting through Shannon airport on their way to wars in the Middle East ended Irish neutrality, unjustifiably and recklessly. 

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Six NATO ships were berthed in Dublin over the first weekend in April, arriving on fools day.

The history of the European Union since its initial seeds were planted with the Coal and Steel Committee in 1951 has been mainly positive and helped promote peace and reconciliation within Europe. 

The truism that all politics are local is being taken both too far and not far enough in the Irish election debates.

Over three years ago I submitted a petition to the The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions on behalf of civil society NGO Shannonwatch, on the issue of US military and CIA use of Shannon airport. The committee issued its final report on St Bridget’s day 2016.

Barry Walsh (Letters, January 27) is correct to point out that “Double speak around Putin shouldn’t surprise”.

Martin D Stern (Letters, January 6) wrongly suggests that in my letter on January 13 I was trying to imply Israel was ultimately responsible for recent Saudi executions.

Am I alone in failing to understand the connection between Edward Horgan’s opening remarks (January 13) “Following the execution of 47 men in Saudi Arabia on January 2, the situation in the Middle East is deteriorating” and the remainder of his letter unless he wishes to imply that Israel was ultimately responsible for their deaths?

Following the execution of 47 men in Saudi Arabia on January 2, the situation in the Middle East is deteriorating. 

On the face of it, prima facia, the anti-austerity alliance protesters charged with “false imprisonment” of An Tánaiste and her assistant should be found not guilty for several reasons.

So, refugees will not arrive in Ireland before 2016. That’s great, isn’t it?

Jimmy Carter has been one of the most influential former US Presidents through his work promoting international peace and democracy.