No need for referendum on children’s rights

Fergus Finlay (Sep 11) is misleading your readers and doing them a huge disservice by causing them to focus on the “words” of any proposed changes to the Constitution. The real threat waiting in the wings is the wording of Article Two of the UN Convention of Rights of the Child which states that children will be “protected” from the “expressed opinions or beliefs of the child’s parents…”

This referendum would be about the State “protecting” children from their parents. What an insult to the thousands of caring parents all over this country. This referendum is really about a power grab of monstrous proportions by the State that will eliminate parents’ rights to a horrendous degree unimagined by the public.

There is absolutely no need for a referendum as the rights of every child born and unborn are better protected in the Irish Constitution than anywhere in the world. Mr Finlay and Co know that full well and are not telling the whole story.