Spare us the mocking attacks on religion

MANY of your readers will be saddened to see a formerly fine newspaper descend to the level of the gutter press in recent times, with its frequent poisonous attacks on religion, and on the Catholic faith in particular.

Much of this anti-Catholic bigotry seems to be concentrated on your back page. On Good Friday, Suzanne Harrington treated us to an article mocking that most sacred of Christian feast days, the day on which Christ died.

A few days earlier (feast of St Joseph), Kevin Barry succeeded in writing a poisonous paragraph referring to “religious mania” and “Catholicism, several strains of which linger to this day”.

Might I suggest a prize for “the best (or worst?) anti-Catholic article” of the month? These two writers might well share the prize. Dishonour where dishonour is due.

In a previous letter, I suggested that many of my friends continue to read the Irish Examiner only for the death notices. You chose to eliminate that paragraph. Did you do this because it was too close to the bone?

Do, please, spare us this anti-Catholic stuff, at least at the sacred times of the Christian year.

James Good

Parkview

Church Street

Douglas

Cork