THE war against terrorism is a necessity. Unfortunately, those who think they are in charge of it are incompetent.

FROM any paper other than the excellent Irish Examiner, I would regard a slice at teachers in the Oireachtas as a cheap shot.

NOEL Whelan, (Irish Examiner, Sept 11) is always amusing as an indicator of how and why the thinking Fianna Fáiler is frightened by Pat Rabbitte.

IT’S shocking that the American and British governments have not only torn up the UN charter... they have also turned their backs on hundreds of years of constitutional struggle and construction of which their peoples can be justly proud and which we in Ireland shared.