When Brendan O’Brien again calls for people to support the BDS campaign against Israel, by reinforcing British film director, Ken Loach’s “call on London cinemas not to host the London Israeli Film and Television Festival”, because “it is at least partly promoted and financed by the Israeli government”, he justifies it as an equitable response to the suppression of a proposed Palestinian cultural festival in East Jerusalem in 2009 (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 13).

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This Life actor stars in role made famous by Yul Brynner, says Colette Sheridan

BLOODY Sunday, January 30, 1972, is one of the most notorious dates in the catalogue of the Northern Ireland troubles.