YOU made much of the scandal surrounding the use (or misuse) of Irish in the European Parliament, as well as the lack of personnel equipped to deal with it (January 21). Naturally, as an Irish language enthusiast, I share that concern.

YOUR columnist Diarmaid Ferriter (August 23) wrote that neither Collins nor his contemporaries had any idea how to free their own fellow nationalists in the North from “the shackles of oppression”.

MUCH has been said lately of Bono following Bob Geldof’s lead and taking a knighthood from Elizabeth II.