Whilst most of our media is firmly on message about our migrant crisis, I, like the majority of ordinary punters I suggest, remain unconvinced of the merits of taking in any more than the government has suggested.

When Pope Francis was elected he instanced two major issues that needed addressing: Firstly, reform of the Roman Curia (the Church’s civil service), and secondly establishing the underlying causes of child abuse by clerics and the cover up of that abuse by higher-placed clerics such as bishops and cardinals.

Now that Ms Aisling Brady-McCarthy has been deported for overstaying her visa, it is time for Ireland to deport illegals from here.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said in The Irish Catholic, July 30, that the future of the Irish

In reference to your front page picture (Irish Examiner, September 3), here was a little boy not building a sandcastle, but lying in the water. He could have ended up playing with my son on the beach in Lahinch, had he lived.

We are spending €41 million every year on foreign aid and millions more through NGOs. Then several more millions are spent on direct provision. This despite the fact that we are a poor people owing billions and billions of euro.

While the picture of the child on the beach is extremely moving it seems you have gone with a editorial policy similar to most newspapers. Youdon’t report on the horrors that are causing the mass movement of people.

Of course there should be a humanitarian response to the migrant crisis but there needs to be more long term thought about the consequences of those naïve fools who call for the gates of Europe to be opened. 

Last Saturday tens of thousands of people marched in Dublin to protest against paying €160 per year for an adult to have running water from their taps.

I am urged by Ms Sheila Griffin to not judge the past by the standards of the present and, rather than question the Catholic institutions that owned the laundries and benefited financially from slave labour, I should look instead at the families of the girls and women incarcerated in the alleged care of the Church.