Sir, - Question: When is an amnesty justifiable? Answer: When the crime is the theft of money from the public purse and when those who benefit from it are "freeloaders, blackguards and hoodlums", including tax-dodgers, criminals, drug-dealers and the great and the good of the financial classes of Irish society, along with their political friends and apologists.
Question: When is an amnesty not justifiable? Answer: When the crime is being foreign, destitute, traumatised, tortured, expelled and despised. - Yours, etc.,
Piaras MacEinri, Model Farm Road, Cork.