Sir, - Steven King tells us (November 8th) that more Catholics than Protestants from Ireland fought in the first World War, and that the only Victoria Cross won in the second World War was by a Catholic man from the Falls Road in Belfast.
Yes, thousands of Catholics from the North fought in both World Wars. However, what Steven King does not tell us is that many of these same Catholic servicemen were driven from their homes by loyalist mobs during the anti-Catholic pograms in Belfast in 1920-22, in 1933 and 1935, and during the Troubles between 1969 and today. Did the Royal British Legion protest about this? - Yours, etc.,
From John Bellew
Foxrock, Dublin 18.