LAST weekend was a rather unfortunate time for your correspondent, Kirsten Foy, from Donegal, to propose another raft of referenda to copperfasten our 'neutrality' (Irish Examiner letters, June 14).

RÓNÁN MULLEN, in analysing Valéry Giscard D’Estaing’s draft European constitution (Irish Examiner, June 11), forgot one important point: the French, who gave us Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Monsieur Guillotine’s revolutionary invention (the bread slicer), are quite capable of anything.

PERISH the thought, but Irish motor insurers and Charlie McCreevy are both making a killing from road users (Irish Examiner, May 26).

LIKE George Galloway, we can salute the “courage, strength and indefatigability” of our favourite tyrant without handing them our first-born for immolation.

“TAKING the Queen’s shilling” is still a pejorative term used mainly

WITH regard to the Diarmuid O’Donnell’s letter entitled ‘British regiments – but where are the English?’ (Irish Examiner, March 20), I would like to point out an error.