Can it be true? In these austere times the Government is holding a referendum to change the constitution to allow same-sex “marriage”, so that a man can “marry” another man and a woman can “marry” another womane?

While Canadians and Americans are wrestling with a measles outbreak, Cuba is an island of health according to Canadian Researcher John Kirk.

The global reaction to the humanitarian crisis created by the devastating earthquake in Nepal has gone a long way to alleviating the somewhat lethargic response of the Nepalese government (World News, 29 April).

If anyone is tempted to follow Jean-Marie Le Pen’s recent attempt to minimise the awful reality of the Holocaust, by accepting his hateful claim “that the Nazi gas chambers were a [mere] detail of history”, perhaps they should listen to the chilling testimony of Oskar Groening, the Auschwitz official now on trial for complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jewish men, women and children.

What is your opinion on the artificial manufacture of human beings through in-vitro insemination, ‘sperm-bank fathers’ and surrogate mothers, and other embryo experiment practices, to name some of these abominations?

Our Wildlife Acts (1976-2000) prohibit, from March 1 to August 31, the burning of any vegetation within our State.

Having lived outside Ireland for 42 years, I have never seen such resentment of one area of the country towards another.

Is it just me, or do the rest of your readers also find it incredible that the Government is, on the one hand, advocating ‘equal rights’ in the marriage referendum, and on the other, promoting religious discrimination in the Presidential-age referendum?

Your headline, ‘Religions unite against referendum’ (April 15), is contradicted by the coalition of faiths for ‘Yes’ to marriage equality as represented at a conference in Trinity College Dublin. 

There have been calls to erect a memorial to the British soldiers who died during the 1916 Rising and the Irish Examiner has welcomed such a debate.