Hundreds of people marched tonight from the Department of Children to Leinster House today to voice their anger at the Tuam mother-and-baby-home scandal.

The accusation that the state of Israel was founded on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs is thrown about with great abandon, most recently in letters from two of your correspondents, Charles Murphy and Kevin Squires (Jul 10), despite there being little historical evidence to substantiate it.

Nurit Modai, Deputy Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, claims that the “Middle East is the only region in the world where Mein Kampf is a best-seller” (Letters, Jul 6).

Five Irish citizens who were detained during the Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza are expected to leave Israel today.

Large numbers today protested at Israeli attacks on Gaza in rallies across the country.