Madam, - Senators Donie Cassidy and Terry Leyden are talking total nonsense when they claim that the upper house is a democratic assembly working on behalf of 4.2 million people (The Irish Times, September 14th). Have they forgotten that only a small minority were permitted to vote in the recent Seanad elections?
One cheer for Seanad democracy. - Yours, etc,
PATRICK O'BYRNE, Shandon Crescent, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.