JA Barnwell, commenting on the Chinese new year celebrations in Dublin (Letters, February 22), says we might model ourselves more on the Chinese who view their ancestors with real respect.

THE British MPs’ expenses scandal would appear to show that the word politics really is derived from the Greek “poly”, meaning many, and “ticks”(sic), blood-sucking parasites.

IN her letter (January 14), Miriam Cotton claimed Steven King’s column (January 7) on Israeli actions in Gaza embodied an astounding “distortion of fact and history”.

IN his letter headlined ‘Neither fascism nor saving the Jews was Britain’s aim’ (Sept 10), Tim O’Halloran says “there is a subtle rewriting of history that suggests the Allies were trying to save the Jews”.

SEÁN Steele (Irish Examiner letters, October 9) states that “in the face of the Sudanese government’s onslaught that has resulted in over 200,000 dead, two million displaced and continues to put the lives of many hundreds of thousands at grave risk, Muslim leaders — secular and religious — have largely stayed shamefully silent”.