Madam, - If a US presidential visit to a friendly country such as Ireland requires such massive, oppressive, internal and external security measures and also engenders such local hostility to the man, then the American people urgently need to start asking their political masters, "Why?" - Yours, etc.,
KEITH NOLAN, Caldragh, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim.
Madam, - The real language problems begin when Bush-speak and Bertie-speak are compounded by (as Gerry Adams would put it) Blur-speak. - Yours, etc.,
P. FITZPATRICK, Woodbrook Avenue, Bishopstown, Cork.