Madam, – Perhaps John Waters (Opinion, July 3rd), despite his faulty analogy of the queue jumper, is yearning for an Ireland that is able to function in the spirit of the law rather than the type of legalism demanded by the equality agenda or used by the State to avoid confronting abuse.
To get there we, as a nation, need to have a change of heart and, as A. Leavy (July 4th) rightly points out, a turning from the arrogance and absence of morals that got us into the mess we are in.
Surely this means a constant search for what is true, a return to personal accountability; rewards for honesty and integrity; and a change from the popular notion of pluralism in which all – even diametrically opposing, points of view – have to be equally esteemed.
It beggars belief to read (July 2nd) that the Environmental Protection Agency can find that only one local authority in the country that is fully compliant with EU directives on sewage and waste water treatment.
What is equally staggering is the idea that imposing a fine on a local authority will in some way fix the problem.
Why not fire the culprits and give the jobs to people who will do them.
It is time for us as individuals in this State to grow up and learn to do what is right.
All the laws in the law in the world won’t change us.
Instead we need to become an ethical people. – Yours, etc,