MANY TDs and others have expressed concern over the circumstances surrounding the recent passage of the Garda Bill by 58 votes to 41.

HYLAND (Irish Examiner letters, September 7) hails the “decline of religion” as the primary cause of “a great many positive changes” in Ireland over the past number of decades.

IAN PAISLEY Jnr says that the speech on Northern policing by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Sean Brady, contained a “bellyful of bigotry” and could “set back police-community relations by years”.