Sir, - Devolution in the North at midnight on Wednesday! The thought put me on a high no millennium could offer. With six hours to go, the Budget ended all that. For the first time in my life I am deeply ashamed to be Irish. I am sick to think that all our leaders can offer the poor from our super-abundance is more prison places.) As one of the rich, I did not need this bribery. Perhaps in future the Northerners will keep alive the dreams of solidarity our tradition once aspired to. - Yours, etc.,
Miceal Ross, Brighton Terrace, Monkstown, Co Dublin.