Madam, - How many Christian churches will invite the most marginalised and despised group of people in our society and give them pride of place at the Christmas celebrations?
After all, this is what happened at the birth of Jesus when the shepherds, the most rejected group in the Palestinian society of the time, were the first people invited to witness the greatest event of human history, the Incarnation of God. - Yours, etc,
BRENDAN BUTLER, The Moorings, Malahide, Co Dublin.