POPE AND PRESIDENT

Sir, Poor Father David O'Hanlon and poor Ireland if the only comment that a "neophyte 28 year old Irish priest" can make on our…

Sir, Poor Father David O'Hanlon and poor Ireland if the only comment that a "neophyte 28 year old Irish priest" can make on our President as "cheap, bedizened in her Kelly green". I thought the time had long gone when the only classification that men had for women was cheap or expensive.

On a more sombre note the insistence that the only properly respectful woman is a veiled woman reveals a psychological mind set that would return women from equality in public life to veiled obscurity, nowadays only associated with fundamentalist Islam.

It is very welcome that so many in the Church have dissociated themselves from this neophyte mind set. Yours, etc., Greystones, Co. Wicklow.