My aunt was right: the world is gone altogether

I HAD barely recovered from TP O’Mahony’s attack on the Pope (November 3) when you utterly startled me the next day with your front page heading “Ruling may see crucifixes ban in classrooms.”

They said to me here as I walked around, “you just got away with it,” referring to the recent blessing of the extension of our two schools, because your last paragraph says that the seven judges of the European Court of Human Rights are not insisting that those crucifixes already in classrooms be taken down.

I could not help thinking of my visiting aunt saying to my mother as we were being hunted out to play with our cousins: “Mary, the world is gone altogether.”