Concerning the recent O’Donovan Rossa funeral commemoration rhetoric; it should be noted that John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party had strong associations with early Fenianism.

Matt Cooper’s article (Opinion, Jul 26) articulates the eternal ambivalence of Irish attitudes to British royalty and now the royal birth in particular.

FINE Gael’s recent promotional leaflet, emanating from Cllr Frank Metcalfe, contained the absurd assertion that Michael Collins was assassinated at Béal na Bláth.