Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan’s rejection (viz, Sean O’Rourke RTÉ Radio 1, July 8) of a 43-year-old apology together with a statutory Inquiry into the 1976 Sallins mail train robbery/miscarriage of justice case should come as no surprise to me, to my family or to the other families whose loved ones were wrongly accused, beaten in garda custody and imprisoned in connection with it.

THE Government’s choice of banking inquiry isn’t ‘sexy’, but it is sensible. The independent statutory commission will ensure we get to the facts in an effective, speedy and cost-efficient way.

I WAS shocked by Deputy Leo Varadkar’s derogatory comments in the Dáil (January 28) about “stay at home wives”. According to him, they spend the “day on the golf course or eating lunch, or whatever”.

TO exploit Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper — one of the great artistic masterpieces — in order to promote gambling displays stunning disregard of the religious and cultural sensitivities of many Irish people.