TERRY Prone (Opinion, Oct 31) lays bare her own distorted fundamentalist faith in the ‘religion’ of media-speak, and the gurus of broadcast spin.

WE expect a Dean of St Patrick’s to cause a stir, and the Very Rev Robert MacCarthy is no exception.

ONE can only hope that the Dame Street protest in Dublin is just the beginning of a radical confrontation of our country’s continued drift into mindless materialism where the rich prosper at the expense of the unemployed and the forgotten poor.

THERE were three primary reasons why there was insufficient meaningful debate on the constitutional amendments.

IT is beyond belief that any candidate would not have known the protocol of attending the formal declaration of the presidential election in which they were a running.

I AM delighted with the rejection of the proposed constitutional amendment on Oireachtas Inquiries.

AS Michael D Higgins prepares to take up residence in Phoenix Park, spare a thought for the hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrants who don’t count anymore when it comes to presidential elections.

AS one of those who voted against giving politicians potential “big brother” powers I find Mr Howlin’s remarks about voter confusion befuddling.

IT seems that it’s a greater crime to be a Fianna Fáil member than it is to be a member of Sinn Féin, who have self-confessed members of the IRA in their ranks who murdered or killed members of our gardaí and army.

IN your enlightening feature on world population (Forum, Oct 22), you lay out the current state of the world in numbers but avoid a real analysis on the inequities facing new citizens of this planet.