WHAT amazes me about the presidential election campaign is that if asked what each candidate stood for and what they believed in, the majority of people on the street would be unable to tell you.

WHY do we, as a people, fall at the feet of the legal profession whenever it commands us? The proposed 30th amendment to the Constitution is in danger of being defeated by what is merely the most well-educated and best-spoken trades union in this country.

IT IS curious logic that Greece must default on its bondholders in order to stabilise its debt so it can return to the markets, but on no account must Ireland not pay its bondholders in order to build investor confidence so it can return to the markets. Total nonsense.

FERGUS Finlay (Opinion, Oct 25) writes: “Michael D Higgins has stood for equality and fairness, in Ireland and around the world, every day of his working life.” Indeed he has.

THE DIRT enquiry has been pointed to by the Tánaiste and others as an example of how an enquiry by a Dáil Committee can be successfully conducted.

BOTH of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, that we will be asked to vote for tomorrow, are highly flawed.

IT WAS absolutely chilling to read the names of the eight former Attorneys General who wrote against tomorrow’s referendum on Oireachtas inquiries in your newspaper last Monday (October 24).

THIS May 12 we waked Patrick Galvin, one of our great national poets, in Connolly Hall in Cork.

WHILE agreeing with Maurice Fitzgerald's assertion that the TG4 debate was a ludicrous one give that only one of the contestants was proficient in the fluent use of Irish, his contention that the Irish language came to Ireland via Scotland is incorrect (Letter, October 25).

I ADMIRE all the candidates who have canvassed and with such effort in this so-called “Race for the Áras”.