“Few of us will quibble with public sector works getting a pay rise” according to your editorial (Irish Examiner, May 19), which was presumably written by the public sector union bosses?

Cities and even small market towns, in Ireland, are steadily becoming denuded of trees, which brutalises the urban landscape, negatively impacts on wildlife and removes the health- improving and visual benefits that trees are now known to bestow.

The State has laws to regulate the consumption of alcohol because of the dire effects of drinking above the prescribed limit.

Before Christ, the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, lived in a society in which male homosexuality was widespread. He thought profoundly about life.

A small country with a population less than Birmingham and we want another referendum in order to re-define “marriage”. What a waste of time and money.

In an interview with Michael Moynihan, former Kerry and Limerick manager, Mickey Ned O’Sullivan ponders "what would Padraig Pearse and his colleagues make of an Ireland like today’s? "

US Senator Katherine Zappone wrote that if the same-sex referendum passes, “Ireland stands poised to become a beacon of freedom throughout the globe”. 

As a primary school teacher and parent, I am strongly supporting a yes vote today.

As someone who has canvassed at weekends in Cork, I can confirm that “yes” campaigners have received lots of abuse — verbal and otherwise.

Today, we will be given the right to vote on equality in Ireland. This makes me so proud to be Irish and proud that our little, but mighty, country has so progressed that this issue is reaching a referendum.