Sir, – The Irish flag may have been removed from the Inherent Resolve Coalition website, which lists the countries providing military support to the fight against Isis, but the EU flag remains ("US military removes Irish flag from anti-Isis website", September 26th). Last time I checked, this Republic was a fully paid up member of the EU, which makes me wonder about our involvement in the Inherent Resolve Coalition. – Yours, etc,
CHRIS RYAN,
Bray,
Co Wicklow.
Sir, – I would have thought having the Irish flag proudly on display besides the 59 other nations involved in the fight against Isis would have been a badge of honour. It seems that even this small token was too much for our obsessive neutrality fetishists. – Yours, etc,
PAUL WILLIAMS.
Kilkee,
Co Clare.
Sir, – Ruadhán Mac Cormaic informs us that “The Government contacted the United States military last week about the use of an Irish tricolour on the website of the US-led military campaign against Islamic State”.
Is it too much to hope that our Government will follow up this obviously wise step and prohibit the use of Shannon Airport to United States military aircraft, which for the past 15 years have been using our “neutral” country as an important staging post for imperial escapades to invade, bomb, and devastate Middle Eastern countries? This is not to mention the creation of floods of displaced persons leading to the present migrant crisis. This would surely be a sane and logical step, and what is more it would be a prudent move to make from an Irish security point of view. – Yours, etc,
GEAROID KILGALLEN,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.