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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.