Eric Conway writes with all the sneering dismissiveness of the unquestioning mind. Has Mr Conway never doubted? Has he ever truly given proper thought to his religion?

I refer to Dr Kevin McCarthy’s letter (Irish Examiner, May 2). How tired I get of the intellectual smugness of self styled liberals who perpetuate the myth that conservatives (note the small ‘c’) are all unreconstructed misogynistic xenophobes.

Fergus Finlay misses the point.

WHILE I agree very much with your editorial (August 25) on Al Hutchinson’s report on the collusion to protect Fr Jim Chesney from proper investigation by the RUC, I was surprised at the mildness of tone.

NOW that at last the British government has admitted the people shot on Bloody Sunday were innocent civilians and that they could not justify the unjustifiable, perhaps it would be worth considering the next logical step.