Dear Editor, I thought David Quinn’s piece on the Tuam story (‘Dealing with the issue of unwanted children’ IC 12/6/14) greatly helped to keep things in perspective. While there’s no question that the uncovering of the mass grave was shocking and disturbing, I feel as if the media was quick to sensationalise the story without…

Dear Editor, Over the past weeks I read, listened to and viewed the relentless and horrendous reports on the Tuam babies. And then I read the coverage of the same story in the pages of The Irish Catholic this June 12. Well done to the staff of your newspaper and thank God for a Catholic…

Dear Editor, I refer to the various letters (IC 12/6/14) concerning mother and baby homes and what has unfolded in recent days regarding the one in Tuam. As Morty O’Shea says, fuller and more accurate information is needed for a true assessment of what happened. Having said that I am disturbed by some of the…

Dear Editor, As the shock waves abound, concerning the revelation of the mass grave of babies in a Church-run institution, once again, I clutch my Bible to my heart and cherish – with every fibre of my being – the precious and infallible Word of God. One of my favourite Psalms is Psalm139: “For it…

Dear Editor, Your columnist David Quinn’s assertion that “faith, morality and politics are inextricably linked” (Cost of separating faith and politics IC 29/5/14) is correct. Catholics and other Christians need to recognise that who you vote into political power or who controls media-spin, controls society and shapes Irish society to their value system. Catholics need…

Dear Editor, Reading the bishops statement and Nuala O Loan’s article on racism, one must ask what racism is. Is it racism to ask why we are spending so much of our hard earned taxes on huge benefits for non-Irish when our own children are going hungry? Is it racism to ask why the money…

Dear Editor, The sadness surrounding reports on the Tuam mother and baby home reminds us all of our not too distant past. The public must consider the tragedy in the context of the country’s economic and social profile of the times. One wonders if the fathers of all these ‘unwanted’ children should have input into…

Dear Editor, Many are jumping on the bandwagon of condemnation of nuns for the alleged scandals of Mother and Child Homes from the comfortable Irish society of 2014. Ireland in 1925 and for many subsequent years was more akin to a third world country, a very impoverished State still suffering from a devastating civil war.…

Dear Editor, It is upsetting to hear about the mass graves for babies of single mothers who were cared for by the Galway Bon Secours Sisters. Yet a fuller understanding is required before an accurate assessment can be made of this practice. If the babies died mostly of malnutrition and if the sisters’ resources were…

Dear Editor, The sadness surrounding reports on the Tuam mother and baby home reminds us all of our not too distant past. The public must consider the tragedy in the context of the country's economic and social profile of the times. One wonders if the fathers of all these 'unwanted' children should have input into…