Census and religion

Sir, – Derval Duggan (Letters, March 10th) lauds equality as being "at the heart of what it means to be a democracy". Indeed. However, she then concludes that the question on religion in the census should be changed to one querying whether one would like one's child to attend after-school religious instruction.

Really? Is one only entitled to an opinion on religion if one has children? Not much equality there. – Yours, etc,

AILEEN HOOPER,

Stoneybatter,

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Dublin 7.