Your distinguished correspondent Ryle Dwyer, whose father was killed in the Second World War, writes a typically well-informed and well-balanced piece on the question of the deserters and their treatment and that of their children on their return to Ireland in 1945.

WE expect a Dean of St Patrick’s to cause a stir, and the Very Rev Robert MacCarthy is no exception.

EMOTIONS are naturally running high at the moment at the prospect of our future being determined by an outside body such as the IMF. We need to be clear about our aims because the financial situation has already extended beyond our national resources, which have been hazarded somewhat imprudently to date.