THE proportionality of media response to the Cloyne report does not merely reflect the number of clerical abusers alone.

THE recent introduction of legislation to prevent female genital mutilation is a welcome and progressive step bringing Ireland in line with international best practice and providing much needed legal clarity on the issue.

AS the father of a family and as a normal human being I am as appalled as anybody else at the abuse of minors by those in positions of authority, which includes (but is by no means most prevalent among) members of the Catholic clergy.

AMID the ruined lives, ruined fortunes and carnage of otherwise good businesses that this financial crisis has left, two things (among several others) must change.

THE Government has just announced a substantial increase in overseas aid to the Horn of Africa to assist the people of the area.

NOW I have some idea of the thinking behind Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter’s tea party.

IF Nick Foley (Letters, July 13) had studied the points made in previous correspondence he should have been able to grasp that our campaign is grounded on adherence to article 34.1 and article 40.3 of the constitution relating to the administration of justice and personal rights.

WITH the publication of the Cloyne report we can say, yet again, that the behaviour of the churches and the orders, and of previous governments and others thus far has left so much undone that needs to be done with regard to the honest appraisal of the realities, with regard to the nurture and protection of children and with regard to confronting this terrible behaviour pattern that has blighted so many lives for so long.

IF EVER we needed proof that manners, not clothes, make the man we got it from the three bores, in the Dail last week.

BEFORE an Oireachtas committee recently, Phil Hogan informed us that, “whereas the population of the State was 4.58 million, there were 7.2 million PPS numbers, a difference of 2.62 million”.