Allow me to I put the following points to Daniel McConnell ‘Ireland is too hardline on backstop’, (Irish Examiner, August 3) for his consideration.

A MIDDLE-AGED man drinking in his local pub in west Cork was beaten to his knees and then held by the hair as his two attackers kicked and kneed him into the face. One of the assailants has been given a suspended one-year sentence.

VERY ill newborn babies are doing better since the new children’s MRI unit opened at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin 10 months ago.