THE defence of RTÉ’s Coolacrease programme by Dr Martin Mansergh TD won’t pass muster (Letters, January 7).

A TIDAL wave of atrocity stories has resulted from the RTÉ Hidden History programme (October 23) on the 1921 execution of the Pearson brothers in Co Offaly.

GERALD MORGAN says we should commemorate “the heroic fortitude of the common soldier in the service of … Ireland …” in the Great War, and he commends Gallipoli to us if we cannot stomach the Somme (Irish Examiner, March 13).