Syria air strikes show that Biden has the media in his back pocket
LESS than 40 days into his presidency, on Thursday, February 25, US president Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on buildings in Syria that the Pentagon said were used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for rocket attacks on US targets in neighbouring Iraq.
Twenty two people were reported to have been killed in the attack. This attack didn’t even get a mention on RTÉ One’s 9 o’clock main evening news and appeared hidden away in a short column on page 30 of a well-known Irish daily newspaper.
Contrast that with how this would have been reported if it happened when Donald Trump was president.
It would have been front page headline news, both on RTÉ and all the newspapers, and Trump would have been accused of ‘trying to start World War III’.
Sleepy Joe (Biden) has the whole media in his pocket. MARTIN HENEGHAN,
By email.
Bel has a woman’s sense
I COULDN’T agree more with Bel Mooney’s article ‘The deletion of motherhood’ (Mail).
It’s time that someone talked about reality. A body born with a womb and ovaries is a female and in adulthood a woman.
Trans people can dress it up how they like but that’s the reality of it. And a woman who gives birth is a mother, even if that person takes on a masculine appearance.
Thank you Bel for bringing a bit of common sense into the conversation. MAUREEN McNALL, Galway.
Teen’s death a warning
THE confirmation of the death of a 16-year-old from this horrific virus will have brought the battle back into sharp focus.
The teenager’s death shows that nobody is safe from this deadly virus.
This Government is way down in the polls again for the way it has dealt with all of this, while Sinn Féin is doing well.
We need to ramp up vaccinations. The Government must follow through on its pledge to vaccinate 80% of the people before the end of June.
We must all stick to the guidelines including those people coming in from abroad.
There are also claims of funerals being attended by hundreds of people, while only ten are allowed – with no masks. Is the law different for some of our citizens? NOEL HARRINGTON,
Kinsale.
UK link is tunnel vision
AN UNDERSEA connection between Britain and Ireland would be sheer lunacy.
It’s a completely impractical idea and would cost our near neighbours an absolute packet (mind you, that’s their problem, not ours!)
The time it would take to dig and build, not to mention making sure all the safety aspects were up to scratch, just doesn’t seem worth it to me.
Besides that, I have read that trains in Britain and Ireland run on different gauges. Then there’s the rubble extracted in tunnelling: where does that go? Landfill?
Aside from all of the above, as an Irish nationalist, I hate the idea of there being a tangible land/undersea bridge between our two islands, given our history. So, please UK, bin this idea.