Giscard’s chance to write the final charter

RÓNÁN MULLEN, in analysing Valéry Giscard D’Estaing’s draft European constitution (Irish Examiner, June 11), forgot one important point: the French, who gave us Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Monsieur Guillotine’s revolutionary invention (the bread slicer), are quite capable of anything.

But that's hardly reason enough to put the whole question of women's reproductive rights, medical ethics and secular social programmes back in the sole care of the Fianna Fáil stalwarts who are currently sitting in judgment on the benches of the Irish courts.

Go back to the sources, Rónán. Go back to the New Testament where it appears that the process of secularisation, demythologising and debunking of superstition is already underway.