Recently while back home in Dublin, I was struck by the level of filth and neglect on every single bit of the railway line from Skerries into Dublin City, regardless of the locality being well off or disadvantaged.

I want to vote for Fine Gael in the next general election, mainly because there is no reliable alternative except maybe Labour. However my vote is contingent on a reversal of one plan:

While comments from three well-known and reform-minded priests (Frs Iggy O’Donovan, Brendan Hoban and Peter McVerry) in the media about the proposed marriage referendum are clearly their own personal views, and not on behalf of any order or diocese, or the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), it certainly does the ACP or its concerns, no favours if leading figures in or sympathetic to it can be perceived not (a) as (rightly) opposed to enforcing Catholic canon law via the Constitution or law of this State, but (b) as unconcerned with maintaining what is the universal model of marriage as between male and female, a model which long pre-dates not only Roman Canon Law, but also the gospels and indeed the Hebrew bible.

I am a survivor of child sex abuse and I am deeply upset with the public conversation about abuse in the Republican community.

It appears from his recent letter to your newspaper that Charlie Murphy’s feelings have been hurt by challenges to his arguments about a resurgent anti-Semitism. 

The ‘Frankenstein’s monster that is Irish Water will remain a spectre on the Irish landscape for the foreseeable future.

Here we go again.

I wish to comment on the headline “Drink fluoride to keep teeth in old age” ( Irish Examiner, March 10). The article was based on a recent study on the effects of water fluoridation on the dental health of older people and was conducted by Trinity College Dublin. 

In a few weeks time people who have registered their details with Irish Water will receive their first bills. 

I was wryly amused by Daniel Teegan’s vision of a de-Zionised Israel, reintegrated into its neighbouring Arab world.