IN her letter (April 19), Laura Harmon states that there is absolutely no study which shows a link between homosexuality and paedophilia.

COMMENTATORS on the bishops’ visit to Rome seem to imply that the chief sexual abusers of children are Catholic priests.

THE first article (January 21) outlining the results of the Irish Examiner/Red C poll on Irish sexual habits mentioned that the follow-up article, among other things, would “open up the abortion debate”.

WHAT we need is “l’Europe des patries” — not a European superstate. Vote No.

THE blasphemy bill proposed by Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has given rise to considerable comment in your news and letter columns with most, if not all, writers expressing concern over the effects of such a measure on the rights to freedom of expression in Ireland.

POPE Benedict’s claim that condoms have helped to spread Aids in Africa has raised an outcry, but a brief survey of hard facts in African countries shows he is right.

IN the aftermath of Shane Geoghegan’s tragic death, I believe the work of George Akerlof helps to explain much of what has been happening in Limerick city. Akerlof is professor of economics at the University of California Berkeley and a Nobel prizewinner.

ACCORDING to your report (October 6), the number of abortions carried out in England and Wales last year came to more than 200,000 when women travelling from the whole of Ireland are included.

EUROPEAN Affairs Minister Dick Roche (Letters April 24) fears some pro-lifers may vote no because of “scare stories”.

ACCORDING to your report (December 11), most Irish people would now consider using IVF if faced with the heartbreak of infertility.

WHILE I might agree with the idea stated in a number of articles in the Irish Examiner that the recent ‘D’ case was primarily about the right to travel, the purpose of the journey in question was bound to raise issues of serious moral concern.

I SEE Ryle Dwyer has resurrected the old canard about the priest in Daingean who admitted he had boys stripped naked and flogged in a stairwell to make it more humiliating (Irish Examiner, May 6). Allow me to lay that particular ghost to rest.

I WONDER if supporters of so-called feminist issues would regard the reported destruction of up to 10 million female foetuses in India for gender reasons (Examiner, January 10) as blatant discrimination or the exercise of a ‘positive option’.

IN her letter (Irish Examiner, August 31), Evelyn Cleary takes exception to life in the womb being classified as a “child” from the moment of conception, and perhaps technically she is correct.

IN her letter (Irish Examiner, August 31), Evelyn Cleary takes exception to life in the womb being classified as a “child” from the moment of conception, and perhaps technically she is correct.

LIKE many opponents of abortion, I would have reservations about showing graphic video images to unsuspecting women (Irish Examiner February 23).

READING David Roberts’ letter headlined ‘We don’t want to live in the old backwater’ (Irish Examiner, October 8), I wonder if Dana would be better off not to support the right to life of the unborn child.

FULL marks to Hugh Farrelly for his article on platonic male-female relationships (‘The lonely life of an Ug-man,’ Irish Examiner, July 7).