Thanks to Terry Prone for making a very important point in her column (Irish Examiner, July 27). The foreign people who come to make their homes among us are the most valuable import Ireland has. Many of them will, if we’re lucky, become Irish citizens.

There have been calls for cyclists to carry insurance, just like motorists, and also for them to get penalty points for careless or dangerous cycling. This is long overdue, but it’s not enough.

IN a few short weeks we are again to be plunged onto gloom.

IN 1992, the then president of the EU Commission, Jacques Delors, said: “If in the next 10 years we haven’t managed to give a soul to Europe, to give it spirituality and meaning, the game will be up.”