Names are important

Calling on all those who misspell the name of the Minister for Education. The woman's name is Mary Hanafin.

A fundamental for anyone who puts pen to paper is to spell a person's name correctly. Attributing a name to a person is important. Getting it wrong is either sloppy or insulting.

And that reminds one of how in the past when someone joined a religious order they were given a new name. It is a practice that still prevails in some cases.

What an insult to give someone a name other than the name their parents gave them. And then the practice of women in religious orders and congregations been given men's names.

No doubt there are theologians who will try to justify the practice.