Gender quotas may not be perfect but they at least they give the opportunity to start to redress the balance in political representation.

Robert Pierse writes that he is opposed to same-sex marriage “as a father, solicitor and counsellor” (Letters, March 17).

The Taoiseach recently unveiled an initiative to seek skilled ex-patriots to return home. 

As a boy in Dublin, with a Cork mother, I admired the sterling sportsman Noel Cantwell, just as my late father had admired Cobh’s “Gorgeous Gael”, the boxer Jack Doyle.

As I read Suzanne Harrington’s article on Monday’s Irish Examiner the above question kept ringing in my ears. 

Your correspondent Ciaran O Raghallaigh (Letters, March 16) disputes my assertion that neither the European Union (EU) nor United Nations (UN) state that a child has a right to a father and mother ‘where possible’.

If Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu forms a new hard-right government, it will be a triumph for the politics of fear over socio-economics. 

I write this letter in response to a previous objection to same-sex marriage.

I think I am correct in saying the overpasses at Ardrostig and Sarsfields Road in Cork are now in operation for almost two years. One will recall the great ‘hoo ha’ with those responsible patting themselves on the back in congratulations for the great work achieved .

Another shocking revelation last week about the sexual abuse of Paudie McGahon by an IRA member and the kangaroo ‘court’ that seems to have been a systematic way for IRA/Sinn Féin to deal with crime.