Sir, – Ian Kavanagh (April 4th) and others who lament the closing of pubs on Good Friday each year might find consolation in the fact that it is the only day of the year on which The Angelus is not broadcast. – Yours. etc,
Sir, – Your correspondent Ian Kavanagh (April 4th) asks why “in a multicultural, multi-religious 21st-century Ireland are the pubs closed on Good Friday?”. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to him that it is appropriate in a multicultural, multi-religious society, for pubs to be prevented from selling the drug that is alcohol on at least two out of the 365 days per year. – Yours, etc,