I REFER to Louise Patricia Sheridan’s letter (November 4) in which she implies that the proposed gender legislation would mean that women are no longer elected on a “level playing field to everyone else”.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore and his Cabinet colleagues have little to be proud of in announcing the closure of the Irish Embassy to the Holy See — depriving our majority Catholic population of a very revered lay tie with the Pontiff.

IN another attempt to justify gender quotas in politics, A Leavy (November 7) says: “Surely the system has excluded hundreds of excellent female candidates in order to include many male candidates of lesser ability”.

MICHAEL D HIGGINS owes Martin McGuinness a big favour. But for him, he would not now be the President of Ireland. He only won the title by default.

I REFER to the letter from Mr Tom Hayes published on November 2 regarding the Ryan Report on child abuse, and in particular the following:

INSTEAD of seeking explanations from accountants who can’t add, why not just ensure that they don’t work again?

I THOUGHT the EU was an equal federation of 27 states.

HAVING watched the PAC on television questioning Mr Cardiff, and his analogy of the helmsman on the stormy seas, was he the pilot on the Marie Celeste, frankly, to lose €3.6bn on double entry bookkeeping and be informed on four separate occasions of this error?

IN HER letter of November 4, Louise Patricia Sheridan says proposed changes to increase the number of women candidates “could possibly contribute to the exclusion of an excellent male candidate, so as to include a female of lesser ability”.

ON TUESDAY, November 2, Kerry Against the Household Charge was launched at the Grand Hotel, Tralee.