Impasse

Sir, - When reporting on the current state of decommissioning negotiations, RTE has in the past given us both IM-passe and AM…

Sir, - When reporting on the current state of decommissioning negotiations, RTE has in the past given us both IM-passe and AM-passe. On the 1 pm news the other day, we had a new version of the French word, an OM-passe.

Why not an English word, say "blockage", or its approved Gaelic translation? - Yours, etc., David Ferguson,

"Abercorn", Dublin 18.