I am a daily reader of your paper and I am hoping you will highlight the glaring anomaly in the proposed water charges.

Only 34% of IDA funding has gone to projects outside of Dublin and Cork (whereas the Government edict requires 50%). That means 66% was granted to Dublin and Cork, but how does that divide between them?

“There would be almost 200 fewer alcohol-related deaths every year with the introduction of a minimum alcohol price of €1 per unit,” according to the Sheffield University Alcohol Research Group.

The Bishop of Elphin, Kevin Doran, recently compared homosexuals and people with Down Syndrome as being ‘not what God intended’.

I am astonished by the photograph on the back page of your March 7 edition showing children vandalising an historic building presumably a protected structure.

At last, there is now scope for real optimism in rural Ireland, after being obsessed with quotas for over 30 years.

I read with interest Cllr Mick Finn’s (Irish Examiner, March 12) alternative to Irish Water. I am a Fianna Fáil activist and it astounds me that our proposal is not known to him. 

To propose a joint European army to challenge Russia’s “aggression”, is counter productive to promoting peace in Europe. Russia is an integral part of Europe and one needs to remember that Russia took the brunt of Nazi Germany in WW2, and lost over 20 million of its citizens in that endeavour.

Like the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, I would ask everyone to reflect deeply on the same-sex marriage referendum.

I read in your paper, on Friday, March 6, about printers who would not do invitations for a same-sex marriage. What happened to freedom of religion? The printers said that because of their religion they were against ‘same-sex marriage’.