FOLLOWING the lead of Mairéad Scannell (Letters, October 22), I am going to “give political correctness the boot” and deliver some real Truth.

IN his letter (January 2), Barry Walsh got a lot wrong when he criticised me and my “fellow-travellers” who voted no to the Lisbon Treaty because of what he describes as “bizarre claims” about the risks in that treaty to Irish children.

YOU can tell right-wing religious groups are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they have to resort to praising themselves in letters to the Irish Examiner.

WE in Mothers At Home agree fully with the sentiments expressed by Maireád Scannell (Letters, January 16) concerning the tunnel-visioned approach to child abuse by children’s rights organisations like One in Four and Barnardos.

IT never fails to amaze me and many like me how vengeful some children’s rights groups get about clerical child abuse while they appear to be deaf, dumb and blind to the other forms of child abuse taking place all around them, both at home and abroad.

UCC’s decision to permit experimentation on human embryos is utterly incredible in light of the fact that there are real alternatives.

THE only reason the Lisbon Treaty is not being renegotiated is because Brian Cowen failed to carry out his democratic mandate to represent the wishes of the Irish people to his European partners.

IN her letter (April 21), Maireád Scannell says she will vote no to the Lisbon treaty as she doesn’t want to see her grandchildren conscripted into an EU army.

I WILL vote ‘no’ to the Lisbon treaty because Ireland would become a province once again if it is passed. EU Commission president José Manuel Barroso has acknowledged the treaty incorporates a mutual defence pact.

WE in the Pro-Life Movement have been left in no doubt that Fianna Fáil have turned against the ‘right to life’ of the unborn.

I DISAGREE with Maireád Scannell (Irish Examiner letters, August 17) who finds it incredible that no Dáil member condemned Mary Harney’s statement supporting emergency contraception for 11-year-olds at risk of pregnancy.

IT’S incredible that not one Dáil member has condemned Mary Harney’s statement that children who are sexually active should be given the morning-after pill.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney says eleven-year-olds should be allowed the morning-after pill.

IN response to Mairéad Scannell (Irish Examiner letters, January 25) I believe the Harry Potter series is extremely well written and can be read on many different levels.

WONDER if Máiréad Scannell (‘Harry Potter is a curse,’ Irish Examiner letters, January 25) has ever actually read any of the books.

A BAR owner who planned to host a lap dancing session tonight has cancelled the event because he said he didn’t realise the controversy it would cause.

SINN FÉIN MEP Mary Lou McDonald expressed a wish to have EU Commissioner Rocco Buttiglione silenced because of his Catholic moral stance on social issues.

NICK FOLLEY (Irish Examiner letters, July 130), like many of his peers, is awakening to the truth about school sex education and the damage it can do.

ENLIGHTENED parents throughout Ireland are angry, though not overly surprised, at the growth in serious bullying among young schoolchildren.

AS a Catholic I found Suzanne Harrington’s column (Irish Examiner, Oct 24) on the Pope very irritating and misleading.

YOUR columnist Rónán Mullen (Irish Examiner, Sept 3), rightly states that the time has come for “new structures to address the increased social and cultural acceptability of abortion in this country.” He then goes on to list a number of areas that pro-lifers should attend to because he says the Government won’t.

RTÉ recently ran a three-part TV series on the state of Fine Gael, past and present.

RONÁN Mullen’s advice to Fine Gael on how to sink Bertie was way off the mark (Irish Examiner, Nov 20).