Madam, - Your edition of May 21st reported incorrectly on 21 May that the lord mayors of Dublin, Cork and Belfast had met for the first time since 1955. In fact they met on October 22nd, 1960.
The meeting was initiated by my late father Stephen Barrett TD, while lord mayor of Cork. He invited Maurice Dockrell (another Fine Gael lord mayor) and Sir Robin Kinahan to visit Cork; they in turn reciprocated the hospitality. It was a quiet revolution: Kinahan was a Unionist who found it difficult to travel south, but was brave enough to do so.
To put the meetings in context, it was 1964 before Sean Lemass went to Belfast to meet Terence O'Neill.
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STEPHANIE WALSH, Newport, Co Tipperary.