We are to have a constitutional convention where 66 randomly selected members of the public will work with 33 politicians to redraft our constitution. What a fantastic opportunity.

Yet again the Irish Government has managed to cause shame and embarrassment to our country by the antics of its Minister for Health James Reilly.

Both the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste advise that the Constitutional Convention is to be the vanguard of profound social and institutional reform.

In the latest potential coup for the liberal agenda, which will see gay marriage become a confusing possibility — that all must concur with or be labelled intolerant or even racist — a simple couple of questions comes to mind.

The recent report from the Irish League of Credit Unions should be a call to stir the nation’s conscience.

I was a little perplexed to see that the Labour Party has given an unqualified welcome for the “Mortgage to Rent” scheme — or maybe I misunderstand what is involved here.

The Pro-Life Campaign recently released the results of a Millward Brown Lansdowne conducted poll which was carried out on a quota controlled sample of 979 people aged 18+ between May 2 – 15.

Matt Cooper argued in his Friday column (Jul 6) that only those with a pronounced distrust of the nanny state could object to legislation which would require children under 13 to wear helmets when cycling. We are enthusiastic adherents of the nanny state, but fear that Cooper’s priorities are misplaced.

The accusation that the state of Israel was founded on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs is thrown about with great abandon, most recently in letters from two of your correspondents, Charles Murphy and Kevin Squires (Jul 10), despite there being little historical evidence to substantiate it.

There has been much debate over the revelation that Mr Joe Higgins TD and his socialist colleagues used a constituency allowance to campaign against the household charge.