The population of the Macroom electoral area is 36,844 and, despite the removal of Blarney from the district into the city jurisdiction, the number of seats up for grabs there will remain at six.

IN response to PJ Feeney (Irish Examiner letters, July 24), the post-truce and indeed pre-truce killings of Protestants had an ethnic basis and were the outcome of a sectarian anti-Protestant strategy pursued by the IRA during the War of Independence.

I READ with interest the letter from Robin Bury headlined ‘Protestants targeted by IRA men with a personal agenda during War of Independence’ (Irish Examiner, July 10).