One kayaker had a very near miss after getting trapped in a freak wave off the Sovereign Islands, near Kinsale in Cork.

ON August 29 we learned from your letters page that Hezbollah launched missiles from apartment blocks (Prof. Michael Wald), even though it would not be possible to do so without blowing massive holes in them, and that Hezbollah deliberately prevented Lebanese civilians from leaving villages and fired missiles from hospitals (Gene Cahill), though there is no evidence of this.

FINTAN LANE of Anti-War Ireland (Irish Examiner letters, August 21) urges Irish people to “continue to raise their voices against such a callous disregard for human life” regarding Israeli actions in the Middle East conflict.