Billionaire Donald Trump has not come to the rescue of a widow and other luxury suite owners at Doonbeg Golf Club who were left out of pocket by the collapse of the company.

ALTHOUGH your story of a German town considering the idea of identifying the source of dog poo by DNA was included in your lighthearted “world apart” column (March 3), it does raise important issues about the use of DNA-based identification and the creation of all-powerful databases which are open to abuse and will create far greater problems for a free society than those they will solve.

AS the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox must carry considerable weight when he presents us with a far different perspective of current world trends than that of established commentators and politicians in the developed world (Irish Examiner, January 2).

BOBBY GILMORE (Letters, November 29) is understandably concerned by the plans to fingerprint workers from outside the UK, but the reasons for these measures may run deeper than he imagines.

ANN CAHILL is right to express concern in her analysis of Ireland’s and Britain’s opt-out of the EU’s charter of fundamental rights (July 5).