If the Iona Institute and fellow-travellers admitted they are against the passing of the pending amendment to the Constitution because their Church opposes it, I would have more respect for them. The same folk opposed civil (but not Church) divorce — claiming it would create a deluge, whereas in truth we have the lowest divorce rate in Europe.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan’s proposal to incorporate philosophy into the curriculum of schools can only be of benefit.

My dictionary tells me that the word marriage is “the ceremony whereby a man and a woman become husband and wife; the union of a man and a woman as husband and wife in matrimony.” There is no other definition anywhere available.

Just under a week ago, John Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King’s College, Cambridge, gave a speech with the headline “Why Democracy Disappoints”. Among many thought provoking things he said one stood out for me in particular and I’d like many of you to ask this question yourself as well.

A recent column by Suzanne Harrington stated that religions are like penises, that it’s acceptable to have them but not to think with them.

About a week ago, you wrote decrying the demise of our architectural heritage in the form of the continual deterioration of our Georgian country houses and buildings. 

Once again we have evidence that the Irish Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is populated by hypocrites.

Thirty civilians were killed, and scores more wounded, by a small number of unguided Grad rockets launched by pro-Russian separatists, at the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday.

The Irish Examiner published an article on the opening of the new CUH epilepsy unit (‘CUH epilepsy unit finally opens after two-year delay’, Friday January 16) but as an epileptic I was appalled by the indifference shown by the media to the opening of the new unit. 

The referendum to lower the presidential age might focus minds on a strange contradiction in our Constitution.