Better coverage next time, please

Sir — I must express my disappointment at the fact that the pro-life rally in Dublin last Saturday with a crowd estimated at 80,000 did not receive frontpage coverage, as happened with the gay parade march the previous week with a much smaller attendance.

Your report (Sunday Independent, July 2) did scant justice to the rally with its heading ‘Both sides in abortion debate clash at city rally’ and was also inaccurate in that there was no ‘clash’ involved. The small group of pro-choice attendees lined an area of O’Connell Street and shouted insulting slogans at us as we passed by.

Your report did not even mention Karen Gaffney — the inspirational speaker from America and the first Down Syndrome person to receive a doctorate — nor the electric address by Declan Ganley, and the many others who moved the crowd with their testimonies. Surely such a gathering deserved proper coverage, considering that many of your readers are pro-life and have no wish to see the protection for unborn babies removed from our Constitution.

It should be noted that our Taoiseach is elected to represent all the people and, also, that he is responsible for upholding our Constitution which presently includes the unborn. Surely this means that he has a duty to ensure that this protection is retained and doubly so, as he is a doctor trained to protect life, not destroy it. Hopefully, this was an aberration on your part, and we can look forward to a factual, fair and balanced reporting on this most important issue. Mary Stewart,

Ardeskin, Donegal Town