A Chara, - A much-needed bridge has been built between nationalists north and south of the Border in the election of Mary Mc Aleese.
It was appropriate that this should happen in the same week that Ireland's premier cultural festival, An tOireachtas, was held in the President-elect's home city of Belfast - the first time in its 100year history that it was staged in the Six Counties. Thousands of people from communities the length and breath of the island were brought together for the event, which included the first Presbyterian service as Gaeilge in hundreds of years.
The people have spoken and are continuing to do so - in the cause of inclusiveness pluralism and reconciliation. Let us hope that Mr Harris and his dwindling but still influential clique of fellow travellers are listening up there in the ivory towers of Dublin's neoloyalist community.
Would it be too much to ask of these bridge-saboteurs to have the decency and dignity to respect the wishes of the majority by laying down their poison pens and calling a permanent ceasefire in their mean-spirited campaign against their fellow Irish citizens north of the border? - Is mise,
From Fionntan O Suilleabhain
Bothar Bhaile Cora, Bailemunna, Baile Atha Cliath.