Rivers don't need Paradise to Justify their flow; Insects in Hidden places aren't Auditioning for Eternity
Me: Hi, The following newspaper article was carried in the Sunday Independent (Ireland) 8 March 2026. For the past five days I have been reflecting deeply on it. Its content, tone and language upsets me as a human being, a writer, and an Irish person. I contemplated writing a letter to the editor of the said newspaper but decided not to as the editorial team is inclined to do excessive structural editing on letters submitted for publication: at least on any of my letters. To get us started, I would like you to approach it from a few different perspectives, and then we can develop our conversation from there. One caveat: let us always be respectful of religions and peoples’ right to believe in them. Thank you. :) Problem with martyrs is they like the misery Sunday Independent (Ireland) 8 March 2026 Brendan O’Connor (Columnist) Ireland is “not a theocracy”, the judge said as he sentenced Mammy and Ammi to the slammy. And he’s right, though he could have added “any more”. Many peop...