JACK LANE (Letters, August 20 and September 5) might desist from his continuing efforts to denigrate the memory of the writer Elizabeth Bowen, who is buried in Farahy Church, near Kildorrery in north Cork, of which I am a trustee (my family and hers are related by marriage). He has two grievances in particular against her: one, that she spied against Ireland, betraying Ireland’s interests/secrets to the British in WWII, and, second, on the basis of a fleeting, frustrated remark, that she hated Ireland.

A controversial bishop today appealed for a donor to replace his ‘floating church’ ship which caught fire and sank off the coast of Galway.

A PARISH priest was placed under garda protection following verbal assaults on him during Mass in a Co Wexford village.