Madam, - John Dowling (May 10th) thinks the Taoiseach should not have been in Moscow for VE day. Apart from the thousands of Irishmen who died stopping the Nazi advance, does Mr Dowling not think that as a nation we should wish to be represented by our leader to pay respects to the millions of dead who prevented the spread of fascism?
Ireland did remain "scrupulously neutral", but I believe that the population as a whole supported the Allies. Does he not wonder what Gerhard Schröder was doing there, representing the country that caused the war? Mr Dowling must have been disgusted. - Yours, etc,
STEPHEN STAINES, Baltinglass, Co Wicklow.