Dear Editor, As a married man, father of two small children, and a minister in the Catholic Church, I will be voting Yes on May 22. At the heart of the debate for me is whether a same-sex relationship can be placed on a par with a heterosexual one. For me, as for many people,…

Dear Editor, I too was haunted by the images of African migrants sinking to their deaths off the coast of Libya. (‘Irish people must raise voices for more humane EU immigration systems IC 23/04/2015) It was heartening to hear the emergency summit of EU leaders had agreed to triple the funding of its search and…

Dear Editor, It is good that despite the short time agreed by our Government and major political parties for debating and understanding the important marriage referendum, that the debate is largely free of bitterness and ill-tempered rhetoric. That being the case, the initial lack of clarity by the referendum commission in it’s opening statement, the…

Dear Editor, I disagree with David Quinn’s contention in your April 9 edition that the stakes in the coming marriage referendum could hardly be higher. I do not believe that it marks a “militant” development in social liberalism if we are expected to move beyond “mere tolerance” of one another’s lifestyle choices. I, as a…

Dear Editor, I believe the marriage referendum is misleading in title and wording. I have the greatest respect for all human beings, regardless of class, creed, clan, orientation or position in life. This does not mean, however, they are all equal in personality, colour, orientation or status in position held. The President of Ireland has…

Dear Editor, I very much appreciated Mary Kenny’s short discussion of the religious (and in many respects specifically Catholic) dimensions to the 1916 Easter Rising (IC 09/04/2015), and I certainly think she is ‘on the money’ when she states that these dimensions need to be part of the informed public discussion of the significance of…