I write this letter as I am very upset having just attended Mass in my parish of Parteen, Co Clare, and having listened to the priest speak of the month of the Holy Souls, I decided to visit my deceased relatives in Kilquane Cemetery, but it was locked.

Teachers must feel like celebrities this week.

It saddens me to hear the Irish people are unable to deal with the “stress” of too many referendums.

I live in the city centre and I have noticed that false alarms occur daily.

For many years one of the greatest ways to relax was a visit to the cinema.

Anne Nolan of IPHA claims (Letters, Nov 5) our branded drugs are at, or below, the European average.

Having read Michael Clifford’s column (Forum, Nov 2) on Bertie Ahern a question occurred to me.

Caroline O’Doherty reports (Irish Examiner, Nov 4) on the possibility of at least one Irish woman being named by Pope Francis at the Consistory in Rome.

It’s absurd that when vulnerable adults and children are facing cutbacks to the availability of medical cards, etc, our Government has borrowed millions to give as aid to foreign countries.

So a referendum on same sex marriage is being put before the people who never asked for it on the basis of a vote by a Constitutional Convention made up of 66 randomly selected citizens, two of whom happened to have been Labour local government candidates, a third a chairman of a Fine Gael party branch.