Dan McSweeney (Letters, Dec 24 ) writes with an elegant eloquence, though in a saddening vein.

This letter is in response to last week’s Ear to the Ground programme aired on RTÉ.

DO Sinn Féin really not realise how comically their attitude to the Queen’s visit paraphrases the mother watching her son in a parade who said, “Unfortunately, they’re all out of step except my Johnny”?

NOW that the Greens and a few independents have displayed a cute opportunism by upping the election stakes, we must stay our hand and try to think outside the box for a while.

OVER a period of 250 years, Lismore in Co Waterford was attacked 11 times and burned seven times.