It’s no time since the Vatican’s representative here wouldn’t go before a parliamentary committee to account for Rome’s actions in respect of the abuse of Irish children at the hands of their priests here.

Nigel Farage is right about one thing. The British electoral policy of ‘first past the post’ is “a bankrupt system”.

So much has been written about same-sex marriage and yet no-one has addressed the fundamental question. 

I am shocked that you published Bernard J Egan’s letter (Irish Examiner, Tuesday May 12), a dreadful insult to all the many happy married couples in this country with no family — and those unable to procreate.

Justice Kevin Cross, of the Referendum Commission, provided some welcome clarification, on the Morning Ireland programme, on the issue of surrogacy. 

I would like to commend the Irish Examiner’s letter pages for publishing a balanced view on the referendum. The views on both sides have given me pause to think. 

In response to Eilís Uí Bhriain’s letter, “We need to create spaces for speaking Irish” (Irish Examiner, Letters, May 6), I could not agree more.

Recently (Letters, May 11), Fergus O’Leary defended his Conservative (with a big C) values and charged me with being one of those “self styled liberals who perpetuate the myth that conservatives (note the small c) are all unreconstructed misogynistic xenophobes”. 

The Iona Institute’s recent statement that two men or women would be able to marry for tax reasons after a yes vote on May 22 makes one wonder if they’re aware that a man and woman can do this already.

Aged 19, the number of Sundays where I felt the need to walk out during mass are few and far between. So when the moment arose, I was left with a drumming heartbeat.