THE latest Census of Population took place on April 10, this year.

I NEVER cease to be amazed at the contradictions in our treatments of animals.

I’M fed up with hearing “heartfelt apologies” from the Church because we all know that they are insincere.

THERE are reports that some leaders of Roman Catholic religious orders who represent institutions at which systematic abuse took place are reluctant to meet Ruairi Quinn.

A RECENT letter (July 21) condemned Joan Burton for saying she was going to tackle the ‘dole lifestyle’ taken on by some citizens. In fact, the social protection minister is right.

THE introduction of some sort of property and water tax is a certainty, the form is yet to be decided.

MINSTER Joan Burton’s synopsis that living on the dole has become a lifestyle choice smacks of the usual blind assumptions that the well-heeled in society often make.

WE have had 2,000 years of Christianity. It has brought far more misery than good to people’s lives. Religions have opposed and refuted scientific advances down through the centuries as they know truth exposes the fantasies they would have us believe.

ALMOST THREE million people are now in food crisis due to drought in the Horn of Africa.

YOU don’t have to vote for David Norris for president if you don’t wish to, but you do need to have him on the ballot paper if you wish to live in a true democracy.