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Letters

Britain should compensate Ireland

Mary Dejevsky's article took my breath away.

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Is it time to sell Northern Ireland to the Republic?

Inside Letters

Government cannot cede unionists to foreign constitution

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Mary Dejevsky suggests that Her Majesty's Government should consider making refugees of its own citizens merely because they happen to reside in one part of the kingdom as opposed to another; that 18 miles of sea distance from the British mainland marks a fault-line between first-class and second-class subjects of Her Majesty.
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Putting Northern Ireland up for sale

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Ulster-born from a strong Protestant background but now a convinced secularist, I applaud Mary Dejevsky's proposal that Northern Ireland's transfer to the Republic would make "cultural, demographic and geographic sense" ("Is it time to sell Northern Ireland to the Republic?," 31 August).
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Blair attackers forget peace achievements

Thursday, 2 September 2010

While public opinion on Tony Blair's foreign policy remains deeply divided on the issue of Iraq, events in Ireland must never be allowed pass without due regard.
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All cultures and creeds welcome at Windsor

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

The ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in favour of the FAI was undoubtedly a disappointment to all connected to the IFA.
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Politicians are still passing the buck

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Well, surprise, surprise: there is a problem in the Holyland district with student behaviour.
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Does Papal Infallibility apply to all?

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

As a Protestant who had respect for Bishop Edward Daly during the search for a conclusion to the events of Bloody Sunday in Londonderry, I feel the former bishop is being hypocritical over his recent comments surrounding the Claudy bombing and Fr Chesney in particular.
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Clarity, please, on pedestrian rights

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

I read with interest and dismay the reported incident (News, August 30) of Ms Mary McKeown being assaulted while crossing the road during a loyal order parade in Ballymena.
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Westminster cannot eject its citizens

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

So Mary Dejevsky (Comment, August 30) more than suggests that Her Majesty's Government should consider making refugees of its own citizens merely because they happen to reside in one part of the kingdom as opposed to another.
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GAA must adopt video playback

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Christy Cooney, the GAA president, is 58 years old and his fellow leaders are probably even older. They remember television as something on which you watched 'Rin Tin Tin' and Annie Oakley.
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Only victims were the bookmakers

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

I think we are in danger of not separating out the two issues involved in the current "no-ball" furore – alleged criminal offences and artificially altering the course of cricket matches.
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Climate peril: is it too late?

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Imagine that astronomers discovered that a huge meteor was due to hit Earth in three months.
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Male shame

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

I see the men in Pakistan are shamed by ball-fixing so much so that they have taken to the streets.
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Sorry signs of neglect at forest park

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Last week I visited Castlewellan Forest Park with visitors from England.
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hare coursing barbarity

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Weeks after a ban outlawing hare coursing in Northern Ireland, Minister John Gormley has issued a hare netting licence to coursers in the Republic.
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Downpatrick deserves the best of healthcare

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust's proposals for future healthcare provision in Downpatrick at the new Downe and Downshire are worrying.
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Question of identity

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

I refer to your Saturday Review section of the Belfast Telegraph (August 28).
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Little interest in North down South

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

As a Swedish person living in Dublin since 2006, I have put some effort into trying to understand the complicated situation in the north-east part of this island.
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Cricket has been tarnished

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

I paid good money this summer to Virgin for Sky Sports and to the ECB to watch Pakistan play Test cricket against Australia and England.
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Churches thrive on maintaining apartheid regime

Monday, 30 August 2010

Regarding your article ‘Cost of division too high’ (Belfast Telegraph, August 26), the cost of the division in our society has always been too high but both religious hierarchies are totally committed to maintaining the apartheid regime which means that society will have to continue to bear the cost.
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