Sir, - What is it about the new Irish mind that cannot bring itself to acknowledge Jesus Christ - even when it is legitimate time to do so? The millennium candle contains not a puff of Christian symbolism, yet Christ is the real reason we are celebrating the millennium at all.
The obvious discomfort felt by our National Millennium Committee found an echo across the water. Although it had representatives from all the major churches, the British millennium committee also couldn't get their tongues around that awful name, plumping eventually for a meaningless declaration.
Christ seems to be the new love that dares not speak its name. His time has come around again, and there is still no official place for him. He doesn't seem to have been invited to his own party. - Yours, etc.,
Joseph Wilson, Blackrock, Co Dublin.