Gerard Howlin is a little ungenerous to Pat Rabbitte (‘Unwilling to exit the stage with dignity, Pat foolishly Rabbittes on’, Irish Examiner, 6 Aug 2014) and declares that "the audience...was seldom won for his cause".

Your recent editorial (Jan 2) describes the European Union as the factor which, “more than anything”, makes a recurrence of a world war seem impossible.

GEORGE Lee’s resignation is an act of disloyalty to the 27,000 people who voted for him and to the hundreds of people who canvassed for him.