CARDINAL Seán Brady’s insistence that the Catholic Church maintain control of schools in Northern Ireland vividly reminds us that the church remains part of the problem in this divided society.

IN his letter (November 19), Aidan O’Regan says that by 2020, one-third of all ESB’s output will be from renewables, mostly wind power.

RECENT events have shown that both the financial regulator and Central Bank are totally ineffective — the first should be put out to grass and the second abolished.

GIVEN the collapse in the public finances the proposed 11-month partial freeze in the €19 billion public service wage bill is a joke.

IN his letter headlined ‘Above our weight’ (August 18), Anthony Levy

WE Irish, like most Europeans, gladly pool a lot of national sovereignty but balk at the idea of a superstate.

ON the 10th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, we should take note of one major flaw: the agreement states that a united Ireland will come about if a majority in Northern Ireland vote for it.

EACH Easter the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is read with great solemnity at the 1916 commemoration.

LIKE the wind industry in general, Airtricity’s Eddie O’Connor (Letters, January 26) is strong on word-play, but weak on the substantive issues.

WHAT a windfall for the owners of Airtricity?

JAMES McGRATH’S claim that wind power is “incredibly effective” (Letters, October 8) is totally wrong.

THE demand from most nationalists that our flag and anthem be imposed on unionists when they join us in all-Ireland rugby reveals our mean-spirited, intolerant, dismissive and bullying attitude towards them.

I THINK Fergal O’Neill (Letters, July 9) missed the point of my slightly tongue-in-cheek letter (June 26) on the contrast between nationalist anger at young Paisley’s comments on homosexuality and the virtually silent response to similar statements from the Pope.

I WOULD like to remind people of the Popes’s publicly stated view of homosexuality being “intrinsically immoral” and “objectively disordered” — much harsher, in my view, than young Paisley’s recent utterance on the subject.

KIERAN McCARTHY (Letters, June 4), apart from invoking the Good Friday Agreement, avoids my substantive points regarding unionists’ right to self-determination.

CLLR Kieran McCarthy (Letters, May16) accuses me of having a ‘them and us’ attitude towards unionists.

AFTER the historic happenings in Stormont, Martin McGuinness gave a wonderful radio interview.

AFTER being at each other’s throats in Ireland for the past 400 years, it is truly a cause for rejoicing when we see hardcore nationalist and unionist leaders talk to each other as equals for the first time.

HOW is it possible to produce a serious policy document on future energy needs without addressing the option of nuclear power?

WHILE the debate on peak oil, carbon emissions and climate change hots up, I am amazed that one of the main underlying causes is ignored: over-population.

I WAS delighted to hear Dr Liam Twomey, Fine Gael’s health spokesman, pledge full backing for Mary Harney’s ultimatum to hospital consultants.

I WAS delighted to hear Dr Liam Twomey, Fine Gael’s health spokesman, pledge full backing for Mary Harney’s ultimatum to hospital consultants.

ALL democrats on this island should be profoundly grateful to Ian Paisley.

THE brutal killing of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena is an unspeakable tragedy.

IT IS sad that when the two enemy tribes on this island join forces to play international rugby, most nationalists insist that our ‘nationalist’ anthem be sung.

NOW that the IRA’s guns are decommissioned we face the much more difficult task of decommissioning our nationalist mindset.