Sir, – Pat Leahy fails to acknowledge in his article (“This is exactly the right time for a conversation about migration”, Opinion & Analysis, December 3rd) that when a large number of unattached and unknown young men appear in any neighbourhood, people are going to be afraid. This has nothing to do with the colour of their skin or their unfamiliar accents and everything to do with their maleness and their youth. Young Irishmen would be no different. Acknowledging this simple human reality is not to play into the hands of the far right. Failing to do so most certainly is. – Yours, etc,
EDMOND GRACE SJ,
Dublin 1.