Fintan O'Toole on Dana

Sir, - Lady Catherine de Burgh: ". . . Though I know it must be a scandalous falsehood . . . I would not . . . suppose the truth of it possible."

Elizabeth Bennett: "If you believed it impossible to be true, I wonder why you took the trouble of coming so far . . ."

Fintan O'Toole may not be familiar with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but having declared the impossibility of the candidature of Rosemary Brown ("Dana") for the presidency, it is rather surprising that he should devote the whole of his column to decrying her. - Yours, etc.,

Nora Murphy,

Dalkey, Co Dublin.