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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.

Your story about the “RTE presenter” who will receive €100,000 more than the new €250,000 RTÉ salary cap until 2025 was galling and is most certainly unacceptable (Irish Independent, November 18)

“The judgment of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson; that calamity must not be too much mitigated.” So said Charles Trevelyan, the chief British government official during An Gorta Mór, our Great Famine, in the 19th century.

Surely it is high time to re-examine our fawning relationship with the US “first citizen” Joe Biden, regardless of his local origins.

We who have lived in Ireland throughout the 1970s and 80s should be well aware of the hatred of Christians for other Christians, with the resulting disgusting and inhumane bombings and shootings to death of men, women and children – even some in utero.

Sir — I would like to thank the editor of Life for the recent article and, indeed, the cover of the magazine (‘Motherhood Denied: the agony of the women who can’t be mothers’, by Niamh Jimenez, October 15).

Rapid and seismic change is not just on its way, but it is here and it is happening for the country's national sports. The GAA must decide who and what it wants…

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 Taoiseach, in balancing wearing the Linfield blue shirt and hoping to see a united Ireland in his lifetime, straddles two opposing broncos travelling in opposite directions. The Good Friday Agreement, looking back, now appears to have enshrined British rule in Northern Ireland rather than shared it.

When it comes to county football in Mayo, there is no such thing as an ‘off season’. John Cuffe talks a whirlwind few weeks that has seen Liam McHale step away…