A COUPLE of significant things have happened in the wake of the Lisbon referendum.

SO Kieran McCarthy (Letters, December 27) wishes to see the deportation of Áine Ni Chonaill for daring to raise the immigration issue (Letters, December 13).

SHAME on those Japanese seahunters intent on the savage slaughter of 1,000 magnificent whales.

IN his letter (September 26), Dr Martin Mansergh says “Britain and Ireland were not enemies during World War II”. But that goes without saying since neutral Ireland self-evidently had no enemies.

YOUR ‘Great Irish Speeches’ series (September 20/21) was wonderful.

ACCORDING to Jack Lane (Letters, Sept 5) and Dr Martin Mansergh TD (Letters, Sept 6), former Fine Gael leader and agriculture minister James Dillon was the only politician who wanted to involve Ireland in Word War II.