My personal view is that Cardinal Brady should not resign.

There is common agreement that whichever way the referendum goes, we are in for austerity.

I write to you to express my distress that the referendum on the Fiscal Compact has already been hijacked by both domestic squabblers and opportunistic politicos.

Edmund Burke’s quote: “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing” must surely ring in the ears of Cardinal Sean Brady these past 37 years.

If the Catholic Church was forced, like every other “multinational”, to obey the equality employment law in Ireland, perhaps we would be in a better place.

The statement by the Minister for Finance that a no vote in the referendum on the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union will force him to introduce a harsher budget than is his present intention is little more than an attempt to bully the electorate to deliver the “right decision”.

I watched the BBC on Tuesday night instead of Sky Sports.

Great interest is being shown in the sinking of the Titanic.

Fergus Finlay never ceases to surprise me. But even by his standards, his article on the Austerity Treaty (May 1) was rather surreal. His claim that Sinn Féin has become a supporter of IMF funding programmes is simply untrue.

Compare the following: Priest A writes a few articles about women’s ordination and celibacy.