Sir, - I wonder if there's a psychologist around who would care to take a stab at interpreting what the combined contributions to two of your current letters page topics tell us about ourselves as a nation. Specifically, I refer to the bitter cynicism expressed towards the millennium monument which is to be a tribute to Ireland's achievements, and the starry-eyed nostalgia proposing that we rejoin the commonwealth.
It stumps me, to be honest.
Richard B. Roche, Chicago, Illinois.