The prospect of Mary O’Rourke and other ex-Fianna Fáil politicians being allowed to distort banking history by relating ‘dúirt se liom go nduirt sé leis? ’ to an already warped banking enquiry is extremely worrying.

During the golden age of rock’n’roll from 1956-1978, a band who didn’t play instruments would’ve been laughed into oblivion.

Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, April 21) opines that adoption of the referendum proposal on May 22 to lower the age limit of presidential candidates from 35 years to 21 years would be an expression of Ireland coming of age with ‘a young uncynical President’, as if the role of head of state is to become a random and unstructured social science experiment.

“I intend giving this warning to everyone — you will not on this programme, you or anyone else, use the word ‘homophobia’. You will not use that word about anybody”. So said Joe Duffy on the RTÉ Liveline programme last Friday.

Anyone possessed of a genuine respect for liberal democracy and endowed with a human heart should be outraged at Ryan Tubridy’s eulogy of 1916.

Your editorial (“It’s time for a cultural shift”, Irish Examiner, April 21) argues that Europe needs to accept permanent large-scale immigration from Africa and the Middle East because of the poverty, tyranny and religious extremism which bedevils those regions.

In 2014 the European Union and its member state Governments including Ireland decided to halt the Italian led rescue operation in the Mediterranean called Mare Nostrum, which had successfully rescued about 140,000 refugees fleeing poverty, famine, conflicts and human rights abuses in the Middle East and Africa.

I read the piece by Peter O Dwyer (Irish Examiner, April 21) regarding Irish Water and Eurostat with considerable interest as more than €1.3bn will be added to the government deficit over a three-year period if a key Eurostat decision on Irish Water goes against Mr Noonan.

I will be voting no in the referendum on marriage equality for the following reasons: Marriage, as I understand it, has a biological aspect that requires both male and female participation for the natural procreation of children.

Although the captain of the ‘coffin ship’, in which more than 700 refugees perished, has been arrested, this will mean nothing if the source of the problem is not addressed.