FINTAN LANE’S letter (Irish Examiner, August 21) taking Israel to task for the “mass murder of more than 1,000 men, women and children” points up his disregard for the terrorist Hezbollah and Hamas random suicide bombings, random rocket attacks and kidnappings plaguing Israel for years.

THE letter from Caitriona Fitzpatrick — taking Transport Minister Martin Cullen to task for passing the buck as all sides play the blame game on the Cork airport terminal — raises questions about the minister’s ability to run his department (Irish Examiner, June 6).

PRESIDENT Bush thinks the best moment of his first five years in office was “when I caught a 7½ lb large-mouth bass” — as opposed to his Iraq disaster or tax rebates that increases our already swollen national debt?