Dear Editor, More than any other event in Ireland in recent memory, the story of the Tuam mother and baby home demonstrates so clearly the bias against the Church at the heart of the modern secular media. From a story made possible by already existing records – as confirmed by Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne in your…

Dear Editor, It is high time that the Irish media employ professional critics who can write objectively, criticise constructively, enlighten their readers and show a degree of intelligence. “Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway’s mass graves” says The Guardian. “Almost 800 ‘forgotten’ Irish children dumped in septic tank mass grave at…

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.…