I refer to an editorial headline in the Irish Examiner recently: “Flogging An Capall Marbh”.

GPs have just received the new contract governing care of under sixes. It has been described as sweet and sour. It gives a cash injection to practices that are in financial difficulty after disproportionate FEMPI cuts but does not give back grants that will allow rural practice to survive.

We should all be grateful to Dr Kevin McCarthy (‘Israel leads the way with medical help for Nepal’, May 4) for informing us that Israel “has 250 first response medical technicians, doctors and nurses on the ground in Nepal ... compared to the United States with 54, China with 62, Italy with 15 or France with 11”.

Congratulations to all who were involved in the publication of the Lusitania commemorative supplement in Friday’s Irish Examiner.

Please pass on my thanks to Richard Kurt for acknowledging, in his sports column today, that Crystal Palace are a Premier league club.

Some No campaigners have recently taken to arguing that there is an atmosphere of “menace” and “victimisation” in this referendum while espousing their polemical views against extending equal marriage rights to loving same sex couples.

On May 7, Cobh and Cork will commemorate the centenary of the sinking of RMS Lusitania, the loss of 1,200 civilians and the support provided by Cork people after the tragedy. 

The purpose of the Marriage Equality Referendum is to address serious flaws in attitudes adversely affecting countless numbers of people because of their sexual orientation.

Ralph Nadar, the American consumer rights activist, believes that there are issues on which both left and right can unite to make the world a better place. One issue of concern is protection of civil liberties. Another is a fair minimum wage.

In relation to the depiction of violence, there are two ways in which it can be shown. it can be shown dispassionately or it can be glamorised and that is the nub of the problem.