Sir, - Robert Rochfort asserts (June 27th) that "some 400,000 of the electorate" (wasn't the total No vote 530,000?) told "more than 500 million Europeans to shove the Nice Treaty".
You might think, from this, that these 500 million Europeans had emphatically endorsed the Nice Treaty at the polls in their own countries. In fact, as we all know, the only electorate in the EU that voted on the treaty rejected it, and it is widely recognised that a majority in many of the other 14 states would probably have done the same given the opportunity.
Thus Mr Rochfort's claim that the Irish electorate is holding up "the democratic wishes of the rest of the community" is somewhat puzzling. But then, as he says, the "silly season" has arrived early this year. - Yours, etc.,
Mark Onions, Borris, Portlaoise, Co Laois.