Sir, - I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Joe Foyle's reference to Eamon Casey and celibacy (December 13th). He says: "The statement that Eamon `broke his celibacy vows' is incorrect as he has never married."
Well, where the recent advertising campaign to lure young candidates to the priesthood may have failed, Joe Foyle wins. After the clearing up of misconceptions about celibacy, I can envisage a queue from Maynooth to O'Connell Bridge of enthusiastic, full-blooded young men only too eager to anticipate the carefree sowing of wild oats. Not for them the bothersome consequences we unfortunate lay people must contend with.
Come to think of it, as an unmarried mother I can now look forward, without fear of ridicule, to speaking of my life of constant celibacy. Sure, nowhere is celibacy more popular than in good old Catholic Ireland. - Yours, etc.,
North Strand, Dublin 3.