Sir, – The first swallows came to my sheds today – lovely to see them. – Yours, etc,DAVID MURNANE,Dunshaughlin,Co Meath.
Letters to the Editor, September 4th: On schools closing for voting, the Gaza flotilla, and the Tricolour
Cecelia Ahern: ‘If I talk to my dad about what’s on my mind versus what’s on his, it’s very different’
Julia Kelly: ‘My mum died swimming in the Galápagos at 71... it was a strangely beautiful end for her’
Rev Martin Smyth obituary: Staunchly anti-agreement former Ulster Unionist MP and Orange Order leader
José María Sánchez Silva obituary: First Spanish military officer to publicly identify himself as gay