SUDDENLY President George W Bush calls for an environmental summit and proposes $30m for Darfur — as if these grand gestures will divert Americans from the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention obscene petrol and food prices.

THE letter from Caitriona Fitzpatrick — taking Transport Minister Martin Cullen to task for passing the buck as all sides play the blame game on the Cork airport terminal — raises questions about the minister’s ability to run his department (Irish Examiner, June 6).

PRESIDENT Bush thinks the best moment of his first five years in office was “when I caught a 7½ lb large-mouth bass” — as opposed to his Iraq disaster or tax rebates that increases our already swollen national debt?