Sir, – Vincent Browne's predictably narrow view of the successes and failures of the last Labour government is nothing new, particularly its selective choice of statistics ("SF's impulse for government even greater than Labour's", Opinion & Analysis, May 28th).
A single report on inequality which he cites is hardly a complete perspective on the Rainbow’s very worthy legacy, particularly on equality issues. He ignores that Labour government’s achievements of reducing unemployment by 38,000, setting up an anti-poverty strategy, achieving historic £260 million equality payments for women, and increasing access to education.
Better to critique the failures of conservative parties rather than obsessively target the only social democratic party, and indeed the oldest party, in the State, with revisionist and misleading opinion pieces.– Yours, etc,
DAVID TOBIN,
Church Hill Meadows,
Raheen,
Limerick.