The Association of Catholic Priests’ report on Priest Council meetings contained some very informative statements regarding the attitude of bishops and some priests to those people of little or no faith in Ireland.

Have the Catholic bishops collectively lost the plot?

The Anglo telephone conversations that have made their way into the public domain do not make for easy listening. They have filled the nation with a sense of shock, nausea and revulsion.

There will be no satisfactory Oireachtas enquiry into the banking crisis since such a thing is absolutely unconstitutional.

For me this is an island staked with smoking mirrors, revolving doors of duplicity, to barefaced lies stripped of any pretence it is anything else but that.

We, the undersigned, call on Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter and all Oireachtas members to support amending the Courts Bill 2013 to regulate the admission of the counselling notes of the child witness in a sexual violence criminal case.

Our country is in a huge mess. It’s sad and depressed.

No human being can be separated from their conscience.

Your paper carries interesting news on oil exploration in Irish waters.

A fanatical approach is now being taken towards legislation to clear up the problems that happened in the Savita Hallapanavar case.