A judge yesterday banned a 74-year-old peace activist from entering Co Clare arising from an alleged incursion into Shannon Airport.

How inspiring to read of the heroic actions of the three young Americans, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, on a train in France (Irish Examiner, August 21). By overpowering a heavily armed Islamist gunman they saved many lives.

Thirty civilians were killed, and scores more wounded, by a small number of unguided Grad rockets launched by pro-Russian separatists, at the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday.

THE $185 billion spent so far on the war in Iraq would go a long way to wipe out poverty and save, instead of destroying, at least 100,000 lives.