Sir - Kevin Myers is clearly going into turbo-drive over the presidential election, now that four female candidates have entered the contest. No doubt thore will be many a bulging postbag hauled up to your office. His remarks about Mary McAleese (The Irish Times, September 18th) soared above his normal sneering to the level of prurience. In his Irishman's Diary on the same day, he penned some sub-Nabokovian lines on an adolescent pudendum. What's his angle, then? Do female politicians have to wear an open skirt order to win his favour? Add some fetching second World War regalia and they might just find themselves an election agent in D'Olier Street. Phooaah! - Yours, etc.,
From John Darcy
Bischoffsheim, France.