Madam, - I heard Eamonn Gilmore recite a veritable Christmas carol of Fianna Fáil taoisigh past and present at the weekend. Leaders of the past, we were told, would never have "turned their backs" on Shannon vis-à-vis the Aer Lingus saga. I beg to differ - and instead point to a partitionist fault-line between the Government and Opposition.
Margaret Thatcher once infamously said "Northern Ireland is as British as Finchley". Well, to de Valera, Bertie Ahern or to myself "Belfast is as Irish as Shannon". - Is mise,
JAMES LAWLESS, An Rúnaí Oinigh, Fianna Fáil, Sallins, Co Kildare.