THE attack by former MEP Patricia McKenna on the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, when he addressed a National Forum on Europe meeting in Dublin recently, was disgraceful and highly offensive.

SPEAKING in a recent Dáil debate on the Lisbon treaty, Sinn Féin spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh referred to the participation of the Irish defence forces in the UN-mandated and EU-led peacekeeping mission to Chad as a “military adventure”.