Dr Martin’s home truths - We would do well to hear the message

THERE is an energising honesty and absence of cant in the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin’s weekend remarks, which do no more than state the obvious with absolute clarity and conviction.

The real power behind the interview, published by the Sunday Tribune, are the challenges it offers to everyone who cares about a fair, honest and honourable society.

His conviction is that of someone who has watched our society change and who believes, like so many Irish people, Catholic or otherwise, that many of these changes have not been for the better.