THE presidential candidate debate on TnaG last week was ludicrous beyond belief when dealing with the Gaelic language in a programme mixed with both English and Gaelic.

READING the many signatures of former attorney generals on a letter to you makes me wonder what collective noun could be used to describe such a distinguished bunch.

THE warnings given by eight of our previous attorney generals that the referendum on inquiries by the Oireachtas would possibly give unlimited powers to the Oireachtas on any matter of public importance should be heeded.

IF the referenda are passed by the people of the Republic of Ireland on Thursday, then truly our education system will have failed.

THE inquiries bill all boils down to this: do you want to give powers to Enda Kenny and his friends to be nasty to you if they so decide?

WELL, that settles it.

THIS election is really rocking the system in that the people are now poised to disregard all the media pressure and hype including that of the national broadcaster to elect a rank outsider as our ninth president.

ARTICLE 35.5 in the Constitution states that the “renumeration of a judge shall not be reduced during his continuance in office”.

WE are strongly opposed to the current proposals to amend the Constitution for the following reasons.

I NOTE that, according to Professor Geraint Rees “a strong correlation was seen between numbers of Facebook friends” and the amount of grey matter in certain regions of the brain (News, October 19).