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If you would like to have your voice heard on the future of the Irish Constitution, a public meeting is being held in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Athlone next Wednesday November 20 at 7.30pm.

The Convention on the Constitution is preparing to hold its first meeting west of the Shannon in Galway next week. The meeting will take place in NUI Galway (Áras Moyola Lecture Theatre, North Campus) on October 30 at 7.30pm, and Galway citizens have been invited to attend.

The way Irish politicians are elected to the Dáil is to be debated at the next meeting of the Convention on the Constitution. In advance of the gathering, the chairman of the convention, Tom Arnold, has urged the citizens of Mayo to participate by submitting their views and suggestions on the Dáil electoral system.

At a critical stage in the evolution of the State, we failed to use our education system to address the question of constitutional illiteracy when it might have developed the capacity of citizens to engage critically with their State. We opted for different versions of unthinking nationalism when we might at least have opted for thinking nationalisms.

A Galway city councillor has slammed the GoverNment for its “utterly contemptuous” move to hold referendums and expect people to vote today when there has been “next to no debate” on the very serious issues involved.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has welcomed the publication of the final report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children. She said that the report presented an important opportunity to strengthen children’s rights in the State.