Sir, - Now that the race for the presidency is well and truly on, might I suggest an ideal candidate - neither political nor about to retire?
This person has most of the desired criteria for the job: high profile internationally, well-versed in diplomatic protocol, schooled in high-ranking entertaining, champion of deserving causes, currently between jobs, ideal advertisement for the Irish fashion industry, as Irish as the Irish football team and an ideal ambassador for Anglo-Irish relations, especially in these days of a declined British Empire. I refer, of course, to Diana, Princess of Wales. - Yours, etc., Sandra Mathews,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.