For the past number of years, and with increasing intensity, as we approach the centenary of the 1916 Rising, many voices have turned into a veritable cacophony, eulogising the Irish men who fought for the Allied side in the imperial joust that was World War One.

AFTER Richard Dowling’s latest missive (Irish Examiner, Nov 4), is it not time he, too, lost his mask?

ON August 7 you featured letters, articles and editorials railing against the supposed bad treatment of asylum seekers by this country.

IT isn’t very often that one is treated to a compelling documentary on RTE, but the True Lives series produced a gem on February 18 regarding Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the attempted coup in April of last year.