Sir - The article by Nuala O'Faolain entitled "North-South lessons in flaunting it without ever seeming to"(Opinion, April 20th) was nasty, insulting and full of anti-Northern prejudice. People have a perfect right to shop on the Bloomfield Road in Belfast or anywhere else they like. They are further to praised for taking pride in their appearance and matching accessories woth clothes is an excellent idea. Nuala O'Faolain is the person with an attitude, not the people she so unfairly describes.
Her description of the Lisburn Road shops is a total distortion. It's a very busy road with lots of shops and sadly, because of terrorism, many of them have had to install a system for controlling entry. This has been for security reasons only. If Nuala O'Faolain can't understand something so basic about shops in some parts of Belfast, she has a lot to learn.
She glories the flaunting of wealth which has turned Dublin into a very unpleasant place. Belfast is a much nicer City because of its Christian reserve in not flaunting wealth, thus avoiding offence to less well-off people.
Sadly, the whole article was nasty and reminded me of one, also written by Nuala O'Faoalain, in your paper some years ago about the lovely North Down area . It also showed southern prejudice and was so narky as to be sad. - Yours etc., Patrick Nally,
Town hall Street,
Cavan.