Next month the Irish electorate will be asked to vote as to whether marriage should be redefined to include couples of the same sex.

I would like to thank your readers for the fantastic support they gave to Bóthar’s recent ‘Matching Grant Appeal’. Without the support of individuals, communities and businesses throughout Co. Mayo, Bóthar wouldn’t be able to raise struggling families above the poverty line.

Noticably absent from proposals to reform the Seanad is its use as a stepping stone to the Dáil, a consolation prize for those who have been rejected by the electorate in elections.

I take umbrage with the article entitled ‘Drawing a short straw on heart disease’ (Irish Examiner, April 9). Equating shortness with a higher risk of heart disease is too simplistic by far. 

I’m writing about a friend; let’s call her Joan. In her early 20s, she was in a relationship with a man of her own age.

I was searching on the internet for the name of the young Irish girl killed in Scotland. 

“All professions are a conspiracy against the laity” — George Bernard Shaw’s observation retains a frightening degree of validity, albeit at the rhetorical end of the social commentary ‘meter’. 

The numbers of assaults on our streets are increasing, and the vast majority of those assaults happen at the weekend.

The Gardaí and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are to be complimented for their latest clampdown on illegal deer hunting. Deer herds around the country have been ravaged by gangs of thugs using high powered lamps and dogs.

Myles Duffy’s statement that (Irish Examiner, Letters, April 14) Britain should ‘exonerate’ the executed of 1916 is incorrect.