Joanna Trollope still turns heads. It is not just that she carries herself with such dignity and grace, with her English charm and impeccable manners. It is also her ability to win fans all over the world.

Pre-tax profits at the UK arm of Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore property development business fell 37% to £88.3m (€103.4m) last year.

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Tate chief Nicholas Serota has a suggestion for Tate Modern's neighbours after they complained about being overlooked by visitors to its new viewing platform - put up nets.

Your letters, your views...

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The new Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has called for vested interests in the health system to put aside their egos so that problems can be tackled.

Given Orla O’Neill (Letter Irish Examiner, April 11), puts such great store in what Amnesty International has to say, it is reasonable that she also pays attention to what it has to say about the Palestinians whose delusions she panders to.

CityJet has warned that all airlines flying to and from London City Airport are concerned over its sale to a Canadian consortium for £2bn (€2.58bn) and the potential cost increases the deal could bring.

Fine Gael and Labour were given a mandate to radically reform the way Ireland is governed from top to bottom but they didn’t try to live up to the mandate they received.

Alison O’Connor (Irish Examiner, Jan 8) tells how the cuddly Greens make a nice, harmless, side salad political option, but do they?

If ever there was an example of why those still living in Ireland have learnt nothing from the crash the court case taken by hospital consultants provides all the answers.

Jack O’Neill (Irish Examiner, September 26) displays an ignorance of factual history.

Here we go again re a rake of reannouncements. 

There is no thrill in driving the world’s most powerful racing car, the man who designed it has said.

Mr Noonan has long since paid off any mortgage on his family home and has never had to pay the mortgage on his Dublin home as the Irish taxpayer has (repeatedly) paid for that capital asset, as they have done for the likes of Mr Kenny, Mr Martin, Mr Adams and others.

Re Kevin Mc Carthy’s letter ( September 5), as it happens the borough where I live in London (Tower Hamlets) is one of the poorest and richest in the country as it contains Canary Wharf and a swathe of deprived social housing estates.

“ I’m sorry, but sometimes you have to be blunt to get the message through.”

Of course there should be a humanitarian response to the migrant crisis but there needs to be more long term thought about the consequences of those naïve fools who call for the gates of Europe to be opened. 

The political class in the UK and Republic, who do not have to live with the criminality of the nationalist and loyalist terrorists, refuse to face the reality that SF/IRA never went away.

Just a word of warning to any emigrant, with a sliver of hope to return and make their life in Ireland, who thinks the worst is over and things have changed.

It cannot be possible Daniel Teegan (Letters, July 4) believes that a one state solution in the Middle East was ever or will ever be possible. 

BALLYMORE Properties has not gone away.

After listening to Enda Kenny’s profound words about how the staff at Clery’s department store had been treated, it made me wish that he had been Taoiseach since 2011, with the largest majority in the history of the State.

It’s remarkable how selective apologists for the myth of a Palestinian state are about what offends them.

It may be the Baileys or the fact that it’s also Eurovision weekend but my emotions are running high.

“Few of us will quibble with public sector works getting a pay rise” according to your editorial (Irish Examiner, May 19), which was presumably written by the public sector union bosses?

I wonder is it the same company that provided the array of flags to be burnt in 1945 by Trinity and UCD students (Ryle Dwyer, May 7 ) that provides the array of flags that seem to be available suspiciously quickly across the Muslim world to be burnt as and when they are told to take offence at something.

What is interesting about court cases in which the State is involved is the way they show how little has changed since our ‘democratic revolution’ in 2011.

Recently while back home in Dublin, I was struck by the level of filth and neglect on every single bit of the railway line from Skerries into Dublin City, regardless of the locality being well off or disadvantaged.

Donal O’Driscoll’s argument about blood donation (February 19) doesn’t make sense.

How typically Irish. We are the country that created the situation that Greece, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus are now in, because we came up with the idea of a bank guarantee.

Every right-minded person will be disgusted by the wealth accrued by the political class since 2011, as revealed by RTÉ, and none will be surprised that the Government has not reformed this system.

There is always a balance to be struck for a gay person in the public eye. 

Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons about all figures in authority, be they political or religious. It has depicted the leaders of the Catholic and Jewish faith more times than it has ever featured pictures of Muslim leaders.

If a certain type of Muslim is offended by a cartoon then no one is forcing them to look at it and if a picture of someone crying because innocent people were slaughtered in his name, then it is the moral duty of media to publish the front page of Hebdo on its front page.

Ballymore Group, led by prominent Irish developer Sean Mulryan, is combining with a Malaysian property investment company to develop three London sites in a €2.8bn joint venture.

Con Hayes’ defence of Palestinian policies (Letters, Jan 7) cannot go unchallenged.