THE delayed publication of my letter (‘Bank raid blame game ignores a basic fact,’ Irish Examiner, February 9) meant that some references were out of date and had to be edited out.

THE rush to judgement by Bertie Ahern, members of the Government, most of the politicians and most of the media (including yourselves) about the Northern Bank robbery is most disturbing.

CONGRATULATIONS on your recent leader in which you laid the blame for the breakdown of the negotiations in the North at the door of the DUP.

I READ with interest your recent editorials in the wake of the massacre in Madrid.

RYLE DWYER makes the extraordinary claim that in September 1943, Eamonn de Valera approved the plan that our diplomatic representatives in Berlin, Rome, and Vichy be recruited by the OSS and used as American spies (Irish Examiner, February 21). He further implies that this actually happened.