Religion is not outside the political domain

RÓNÁN MULLEN, in his continuing rant on the perfidy of the Godless media, bemoans the lack of qualified commentators to write about religion in the Irish national dailies (The Irish Examiner, April 9).

He complains that there are only two religious correspondents employed full-time by the Irish media. He complains that as a result a political correspondent was inappropriately employed to report on the appointment of a bishop by the Sunday Tribune.

It does seem a little rich for him to implicitly argue that the appointment of a senior member of the Catholic hierarchy is completely outside the domain of the political.