@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Salvador, do you agree that public worship should have been stopped under level 3 (never mind level 5)? Why hasn't it been stopped in the North under their tightest restrictions?

@DavQuinn @IrishTimes David, I recognise and deeply appreciate the huge amount of effort that parishes went to in making churches as safe as they could be. I also recognise and appreciate the efforts being made by our government to keep us safe, even if they are considered excessive by some (1 of 2)

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Great letter, thanks for writing and sharing.

@JadyPL @IrishTimes Thank you ... I really needed to vent this one!

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Bravo!

@carmenmangion @IrishTimes Thanks, Carmen!

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Well said, Salvador.

@DonnchaLaw @IrishTimes Thanks, Donncha. It was really getting under my skin!

@SalvadorRyan Interesting letter. Raises a wider issue of how understood the Penal Laws are or whether it’s become an empty phrase to describe any type of restriction. Real or imagined.

@StephenDouds Indeed!

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Excellent letter. 👏

@MajellaDempsey @IrishTimes Thank you!

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Obviously you have an ego problem in posting it here - as if anyone, least of all IT readers could give flying fig about your views on Mass attendance. BTW Mass is not a social gathering where you get to chat to friends, it’s where you meet Christ in his divinity.

@blaenor @IrishTimes You’ve completely missed the point, I fear. And resorting to insults rather than engaging in civil discourse speaks volumes. Why should anyone give a flying fig about anything written to the IT? Perhaps you would prefer some more censorship of views you happen to disagree with?

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Excellent letter

@BrendaDrumm @IrishTimes Thank you, Brenda!

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Thanks for bringing a bit of sanity to this subject. I believe most priests and most Catholics in Ireland agree with what you said. Trouble is that the voice of the people has been subverted by a few strong voices who dictate to the many.

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes Excellently put.

@SalvadorRyan @IrishTimes hear, hear!

@SalvadorRyan @tomdoorley @IrishTimes Doesn’t churchgoing mean socialising? If you believe in God as being all powerful then She is with you everywhere. In that vein, God sent us this virus. Maybe testing us to learn how we can all pull together so that we can conain it and live with it. What do you think?