Sir, – I wonder if those who have been critical of Danny Healy-Rae’s assertion that God controls the weather are the same ones whose families put out a statue of the Infant of Prague in the back garden to be assured of good weather for a wedding or family occasion? – Yours, etc,
TONY CORCORAN,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 14.
Sir, – Which is more worrying? That Danny Healy-Rae sees God as some kind of deity controlling the weather? Or that others fail to appreciate that God may also be a metaphor for, among other things, the awesome power and force of “nature”?
Who may be more guilty of interpreting things too literally? – Yours, etc,
JOSEPH MACKEY,
Athlone, Co Westmeath.
Sir, – While Danny Healy-Rae is at it, why not pin all the earthquakes, tsunami and volcanoes upon the actions of what must be a pitiless, vengeful and malevolent god?
Why the religiously minded would seek to claim such wanton violent misery to be committed in their name is entirely beyond me. – Yours, etc,
PHILIP CONNOLLY,
New Ross, Co Wexford.
Sir, – Una Mullally notes approvingly that Naomi Klein referenced the water charge protests as being one of the movements that "feed into climate justice" ("Nothing to admire in Healy-Rae's bluster on climate change", Opinion & Analysis, May 9th).
The fact that the water charge protesters are against what is, outside Ireland, universally agreed as the best way of conserving a scarce resource seems to be lost on your columnist.
It also shows Naomi Klein to be among the many left-wingers to have jumped on the climate change bandwagon when she saw it as an opportunity to give her failed socialist ideology a more respectable veneer. – Yours, etc,
PAUL WILLIAMS,
Kilkee, Co Clare.