In response to Martin Heneghan’s letter ‘Give us solutions to climate change, not a list of problems’ (May 3), I am perplexed as to how the writer can declare that “scientists never come up with an answer themselves” to prevent climate catastrophe.
Sir My two friends arrive every year in early April, and their companions come some weeks later. It has been the same routine year in, year out, and I have eagerly looked forward to their arrival each year. I am talking, of course, of the swallows coming to my farmyard after travelling thousands of miles across oceans and deserts, fighting their way through storms, thunder and lightning.
Whether it was prompted by jealousy or begrudgery, it was to be expected that a large section of the English media would be very critical with some scandalous comments on Joe Biden’s recent and visit to Ireland.
The very justifiable shock and outrage at the report of the Independent Review Group (IRG) on the Defence Forces may have left the general public and the wider members of military families with the impression that all those who serve or have served are misogynists, or worse.