A chara, – Patsy McGarry writes of the demolition of a 3,500-seat church in Finglas and the fact that "just five begin training to be priests in Maynooth" this autumn (News, October 6th). When I entered Maynooth in the 1960s remaining for five years), there were 568 in training there. As our parish priest said at Mass today, "a sign of the times". – Yours, etc,
TONY JORDAN,
Sandymount,
Dublin 4.