Sir, - Liam O Cuinneagain (May 3rd) does not entertain even the possibility that CCE may not have exclusive franchise on "the native arts". Nor does he consider that, like all citizens, Senator O Murchu is obliged to respect the right to full, democratic representation. And so, without any apparent desire to know of the input of other organisers and educators, he sneers at the idea of a democratically-derived report as but "a weighty tome" that will "gather dust".
Yet his absence of information and resort to the Hell-fire rhetoric of "cause" loyalty are understandable, for faced with the inexplicable silence of this committee's 18 other TDs and Senators (including Donal Carey, Paschal Mooney, Monica Barnes and Michael D. Higgins), how could he be expected to behave otherwise? - Yours, etc., Fintan Vallely,
Rathmines, Dublin 6.