Sir, - Let me see if I understand Breda Mackey's implication correctly (May 29th): when a member of Seanad Eireann tries to highlight a human rights issue in a country which is an important trading partner of this State, that is when we should question the utility of his position? Little wonder, then, that so many of David Norris's senatorial colleagues are so rarely heard from! - Yours etc.,
Ryan Meade, Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin 6.