I have known the Halawa family for a number of years. Ibrahim, who is in prison in Cairo (he was arrested for participating in a protest there in August, 2013) is an excellent young man.

ACCORDING to your columnist Diarmaid Ferriter (September 6), Fr Michael Cleary was “the obnoxious hypocrite, always a fraud, far more interested in his own profile and feeding his gargantuan ego than in showing any humanity towards the people he wounded ...”