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Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell Bridge a fitting name

The suggestion by Justin Kelly to name the new bridge across the river Liffey in honour of our Olympic gold medallist Katie Taylor (Letters, Aug 15) is, I believe, bordering on the ridiculous.

Parish pump politics alive and well

US firms not concerned by who is resident in Park

Kenny’s party still shooting itself in both feet

Angelus gong no longer for Catholics only

Group accused of silence on British ‘collusion’

Irish war dead being used cynically to attack Irish nationhood

THE former Fine Gael TD for Donegal North East, Paddy Harte OBE (Letters, February 8) appears to labour under the impression that Irishmen who fought for the British empire during the Great War have been ignored by the Irish state.

Mon, 01 Mar, 2010

School funding policy is not sectarian

ON January 5, 1973 the fifth amendment to the constitution was signed into law.

Fri, 23 Oct, 2009

Soccer’s sectarian rabble should get the boot

IT is to be hoped the invitation extended to Eoin Ryan MEP to visit Scotland in relation to the sectarian chants by some Glasgow Rangers’ ‘fans’ will focus the minds of the Scottish authorities that the lumpen rabble involved are devoid of any social, moral or cultural breeding.

Tue, 02 Dec, 2008

Honorary titles anathema to Ireland

SO Bob Geldof has ruled himself out as a candidate for the presidency of Ireland (May 26).

Mon, 09 Jun, 2008

Monarchs inherit, but senators are chosen

RESPONDING to my letter (January 14) in which I expressed the view that a State visit to the Republic by Queen Elizabeth would be inappropriate at this time, David Cotter (January 22) invites me to “look closer to home at our undemocratic Senate”, implying that it is as undemocratic as the British monarchy.

Mon, 11 Feb, 2008

Sentencing policy a threat to status of judiciary

LET me see if I have this right.

Mon, 21 May, 2007

Rewording national anthem a bizarre suggestion

THE suggestion by Julitta Clancy (Irish Examiner letters, May 2) to help achieve reconciliation on this island is somewhat bizarre.

Wed, 09 May, 2007

No going back for unionist hardliners

GIVEN the depth of unionist paranoia over powersharing with nationalists, it is not surprising there has been a spate of resignations from the DUP over sharing power with Sinn Féin?

Tue, 10 Apr, 2007

Unionists must be confronted on pact

FOLLOWING the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the participants in the multi-party negotiations dedicated themselves to the “achievement of reconciliation, tolerance, partnership, equality, mutual respect and the vindication of the human rights of all”.

Mon, 03 Jul, 2006

DUP’s long history of flirting with violence

COMMENTING on DUP criticism of the proposed Northern Assembly link between the UUP and David Ervine’s PUP, Peter Molloy (Irish Examiner letters, May 19) reminds us of the actions of DUP leader Ian Paisley in assembling 500 men in military formation holding aloft gun licences in 1981.

Thu, 25 May, 2006

The new unionism

IN recent times there have been demands for our national flag to be changed, the words of our national anthem to be rewritten and for consideration to be given to rejoining the British Commonwealth.

Thu, 22 Dec, 2005

President not far off the mark

WHILE President McAleese has apologised for her remark that “people in Northern Ireland transmitted to their children an irrational hatred of Catholics,” I believe she was not too wide of the mark.

Tue, 01 Feb, 2005

Will political ecumenism continue for Trimble?

IN withdrawing the Ulster Unionist Party from the review of the Belfast Agreement in protest at the alleged IRA attack on Bobby Tohill in Belfast recently, it appears David Trimble has embraced the political ecumenism called for in the Good Friday Agreement.

Mon, 08 Mar, 2004