There has been a noticeable ratcheting up of anti-Catholic commentary (most of it, as usual, ill-informed) in the media and elsewhere in recent weeks.

On Mar 12 in the Examiner I read with great interest Fr Sean McDonagh’s comments in Dan Buckley’s article and also Very Rev Joseph McGuane’s comments in Letters.

As horse racing pundits in the UK give lip service to the horse killings at the Grand National we do not hear many racing supporters condemning the move by the Irish Government to supply China with Irish horses.

I will welcome a charge for water and the reason is fairly simple.

Surely there must be some health and safety regulations regarding very young children playing and cycling around roads in housing estates, where there is traffic, without any adult supervision whatsoever.

I refer to your recent front page expose of Redemptorist priests’ reactions to the Vatican censure of liberal priests and to Dan Buckley’s contribution to same which he described as a return of the Inquisition.

One of the reasons I attended the demonstration last Saturday at the Labour Party conference, along with many others from Glór na Tuaithe, was to protest against the closing of Garda stations in rural Ireland.

It’s a bit rich that the Labour Party orate that they are free of corruption, when they have been clearly implicated in the Mahon findings.

I notice (Irish Examiner, Apr 7), that Mr Diarmuid Gavin’s hanging garden is to go ahead in our lovely Fitzgerald’s Park.

I listened with incredulity to Roisin Shortall being reported over the weekend as stating that if the reforms were not implemented in the Health Sector that there would be further cuts in services.