“After all, Christians were fighting Christians in the North, and no doubt both sides confidently believed that God was on their side.”

Eamon Gilmore’s “brooding resentment”, as you name it, (Editorial, Nov2) precisely characterises the stunted arrogance of a careerist self-server. 

CIA Director John Brennan must surely be in line for the euphemism award of the decade.

“Deep frustration and scepticism” (Irish Examiner Editorial, Sept 30) is the hubris-hybrid that has haunted the Stormont ‘enterprise’ since its inception. The innate sectarian ‘pyrite’ which riddles so much of the societal machination in the six northern counties is a greedy malignancy of ‘me-féinism’.