Madam, - A well known confectioner has recently begun a series of television advertisements on British television urging people to "make the country happy". Beside this tagline is a chocolate map of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.
I would have put it down to pure ignorance on behalf of the graphic design team, but it doesn't appear in the ads shown on Irish television. In other words, they realise people in Ireland would spot it.
It's no wonder I meet so many foreigners who can't believe we're not part of the United Kingdom. - Yours, etc,
DEREK HOPPER, Lucan, Co Dublin.