If next Friday’s referendum is carried, article 27 of the Constitution, and a right of the people, will be removed.

In the Seanad referendum on Friday, the Irish people are being offered a choice that past generations were deprived of by Irish governments — the choice to vote yes to abolish the current undemocratic and elitist Seanad, or to keep it.

Someone should telephone Croke Park to tell them we are in a recession with record emigration, unemployment, debt, and depression, while the GAA behaves like boom-time brats serving up enjoyment and happiness, and entertainment of the highest order at minimum cost.

The Irish banking crisis has not gone away and we could be sitting on a financial Hiroshima involving more than one bank. The three main high street retail banks have all shown massive sobering losses for December last year.

Once again, members of an ethnic group are seeking to make their illegal acts legal.

Re your article on people’s wariness of American cloud-computing service providers, why not ask these companies to host their data centres in Ireland?

Eamonn Gilmore didn’t see the irony when he addressed the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee to condemn Syria for a chemical attack. He said the attack was a new low against civilians.

What a year for hurling and a wonderful final to cap it all. Congratulations to Davy and hard luck to Jimmy.

Threats to funding for fee-paying schools are an attack on fairness, equality, and families.

The media coverage of the Seanad debate amounts to: forget about the issues involved in the abolition of the Seanad.