An absence of imagination?

Madam, - If Michael Cronin, Peter Sirr and Barra Ó Séaghda (December 27th) find it "difficult to imagine a crueller and more…

Madam, - If Michael Cronin, Peter Sirr and Barra Ó Séaghda (December 27th) find it "difficult to imagine a crueller and more unjust fate" than the one which has befallen the late Seán Ó Ríordáin because his poems are not available in any of the main bookshops, they must be (to paraphrase the late Jim Mitchell) suffering from an imagination deficit.

Or perhaps they are unaware of the cruel and unjust fate that has befallen Benazir Bhutto, Madeleine McCann, Susie Long, the relatives of the Omagh bomb victims, the ladies in the midlands whose cancer was misdiagnosed, the people who died after being treated with contaminated blood products, and the countless millions of starving, diseased, and oppressed people around the world.

- Yours, etc,

FRANK HENRY, The Baily, Circular Road, Galway.