JUDITH GOLDBERGER
Madam, - Kevin Myers has picked on soft targets with his article about Eoin O'Duffy and John Charles McQuaid. Both dogmatic Catholics. Both dead.
His piece can hardly be excused on the basis of a J'accuse-type challenge since we're all war-weary after years of the same lame undergraduate polemic about the separation of Church and State.
This article was nothing more than a deliberate attempt by Mr Myers to stir up the brown stuff. That some took the bait is no surprise, but I wonder would he be so free with his words in a similar article about members of the Islamic faith? - Yours, etc.,
JUDITH GOLDBERGER
Ralston Avenue,
Redwood City,
CA 94065,
USA
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Madam, Here, here to Kevin Myers's castigation of Eamon Dunphy. Perhaps the public could also be spared the smug pontifications of Fintan O'Toole - a man intoxicated by his own greatness? - Yours, etc.,
BRIAN HUNT,
Ballinagee,Enniskerry,
Co. Wicklow.
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Madam, - Marie Headon's [November 27th] attack on the National Treasure that is Kevin Myers was unnecessarily brutal and unwarranted. Which pornographic magazines does she read? I've trawled through my own stash and can't find any articles approaching the quality of Mr Myers, indeed they're rather thin on articles of any description.
I know the paper of record is capable of great things but I've always believed that the Catholic Church has been discredited, not by The Irish Times, but by the Catholic Church. Am I wrong? - Yours, etc.,
JOHN DYLAN O'DONOGHUE,
Castle Avenue,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.