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Great to see Cork honour sterling sportsman

As a boy in Dublin, with a Cork mother, I admired the sterling sportsman Noel Cantwell, just as my late father had admired Cobh’s “Gorgeous Gael”, the boxer Jack Doyle.

No place for bikes

ADAM D’ARCY from the Cork Cycling Campaign (Letters, August 16) commendably calls for “safer interaction between cyclists and car drivers”.

Thu, 18 Aug, 2011

Worthy of the Áras

IRISH Nobel Peace Laureate Mairéad Corrigan has been banned by Israel over the Gaza flotilla.

Mon, 18 Oct, 2010

A soldier’s fate

GERALD Morgan (Letters, May 3) salutes the “heroic Irish dead” of the Great War. Yet losing their lives was scarcely the sole sacrificial service.

Fri, 14 May, 2010

Murder is murder

ACCORDING to your editorial (‘South Africa: A nation on the edge’, April 7), the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, though “wrong,” was “not surprising” as he represented a view “long unacceptable”.

Tue, 20 Apr, 2010

Mass walkout

YOUR front page (March 22) featured a photo showing a few “concerned citizens” engaged in a staged (stage-managed?) walkout from the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.

Mon, 12 Apr, 2010

Partisan approach of the ‘Vatican Pimpernel’

GERARD O’Regan (March 15) seems satisfied with Dan Buckley’s article (February 27) in praise of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty – the Vatican Pimpernel – in wartime Rome.

Wed, 24 Mar, 2010

Chinese New Year bash staged in a graveyard

YOUR front page (February 15) featured a prominent picture of the Chinese New Year celebrations at a central Dublin location.

Mon, 22 Feb, 2010

Where’s the proof?

YOUR editorial (January 11) alleges that “racism is prevalent here”.

Mon, 25 Jan, 2010

Lethal option

SINCE the Irish state itself lacks the legal authority to put burglars to death, how could it allow private homeowners to use lethal force?

Tue, 05 Jan, 2010

Truth won’t emerge from behind closed doors

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has opted for a secret inquiry into the invasion of Iraq by the Anglo-American alliance.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2009

Identity crisis

IF JR Baigel (February 28) is correct that the contested expression “British Isles” is “purely a geographical term”, then “Irish Isles” must be equally valid.

Fri, 13 Mar, 2009

Obama in the balance

The media acclaim and mass adulation afforded President Barack Obama needs to be occasionally offset by the odd objection. Balance would be welcome.

Sat, 31 Jan, 2009

Wrong way

WE need to be wary of First World War commemorations.

Mon, 24 Nov, 2008

Eagle-eye on Russia

RUSSIA’S intervention in Georgia is a warning worth heeding.

Sat, 23 Aug, 2008

Model for peace

IRELAND is to share its experience of the peace process with other countries in conflict.

Tue, 22 Apr, 2008

Gun law is no law

DEPUTY Michael Ring has departed from the time-honoured legal test of “reasonable force” required of householders who tackle intruders.

Mon, 10 Mar, 2008

Suitable location for cluster bombs summit

CREDIT to this country for hosting in May an official diplomatic summit to outlaw anti-civilian cluster bombs. That’s good work.

Wed, 13 Feb, 2008

Natives or immigrants?

SO Kieran McCarthy (Letters, December 27) wishes to see the deportation of Áine Ni Chonaill for daring to raise the immigration issue (Letters, December 13).

Mon, 07 Jan, 2008

Our benevolent neutrality tended to favour one side over the other

IN his letter (September 26), Dr Martin Mansergh says “Britain and Ireland were not enemies during World War II”. But that goes without saying since neutral Ireland self-evidently had no enemies.

Mon, 08 Oct, 2007

Short volley

YOUR ‘Great Irish Speeches’ series (September 20/21) was wonderful.

Wed, 03 Oct, 2007

ACCORDING to Jack Lane (Letters, Sept 5) and Dr Martin Mansergh TD (Letters, Sept 6), former Fine Gael leader and agriculture minister James Dillon was the only politician who wanted to involve Ireland in Word War II.

Wed, 12 Sep, 2007

Deep-rooted neutrality

I ENDORSE Tom Cooper’s sentiments on the First World War (Letters, June 18).

Wed, 27 Jun, 2007

Foulmouths on RTÉ: viewer vigilance counts

IN his letter headlined ‘RTÉ gives fee rein to foulmouths’ (Irish Examiner, November 27), Maurice Fitzgerald observes how the national broadcaster “seems to call the shots on when the rules (ie, obscenity, indecency, etc) can be broken”.

Tue, 12 Dec, 2006

Get rid of the lot

THE international community, ie, the West, insists Iran must never have nuclear arms.

Mon, 23 Jan, 2006

Feeble argument against commemorating the Easter revolution

ROBIN BURY (Irish Examiner letters, November 8) argues against the State commemorating the 1916 Rising. Yet the State is but the citizens of Ireland acting collectively.

Fri, 18 Nov, 2005

Capital offence

SINCE the 1976 return of the death penalty in the US, almost 1,000 executions have taken place.

Fri, 20 Aug, 2004