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Officer Raymond Piwnicki has 99 civilian complaints on his record, many of them involving racist invective and violence.

Ours is a country that doesn’t have a national independence day. Ireland got its first leg up the ladder of international respectability in the UN due to its inclusive ethos and sympathy for small nations.

Listening to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland on Thursday, I found something very incongruous about the statement that “the Israel Defence Forces are now in control of Al-Shifa Hospital”.

Thousands of heavily armed Israeli troops are primed to cut a devastating swathe through the Gaza Strip, which has a population of just over two million.

The Budget brings a Rolling Stones number to mind. You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Quite.

I get a stark reminder of the war in Ukraine as I pass the back entrance to our excellent Highlands Hotel here in Glenties, which has a section accommodating mostly young Ukrainian mothers and their kids.

Bravo, President Michael D Higgins, who has brought clarity regarding the UN with the following words: “It is unable to stop war, it is unable to end famine, it is unable to stop conflicts, it is unable to manage migration and it will be saved by countries like Ireland who have no other aim or ambition than to have a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.”

The news that the most successful manager of the Irish women’s football team, Vera Pauw, has not been offered a contract extension after taking the country to the World Cup finals for the first time is mind-boggling.

I was surprised to read that the BBC had commissioned a six-part “thriller” that uses the Magdalene Laundries as a backdrop (‘The Woman In The Wall – a fictional thriller about the horrors of the Magdalene Laundries’ – Irish Independent, August 26).

The Garda force should not be a reactionary force, but a proactive force based in every community in the State. They police by consent of the people.