Ireland moves from theocracy to police state

RYLE Dwyer’s column (January 9) was headlined ‘We’ve moved on from the days when Rome ruled our Republic’ But to where?

I suggest we have moved from one form of authoritarianism to an even worse form – from a theocratic state to a police state.

Back in 1949 there were only 6,000 gardaí who had no clerical staff and there were only 80 patrol cars. There was no crime, but we did have much more freedom than now.