A chara, - According to a very short report in your edition of October 10th, a Chechen woman and her three children were deported from the State, having been staying illegally in Galway. What terrible suffering must lie behind that short statement. And we make it OK by labelling her "illegal". It is getting to the stage where, for some people in this world, it is illegal merely to exist.
1998 has been a bad year - the year Ireland of the Welcomes was replaced by Ireland of the Deportations. - Yours, etc., Molly O'Duffy,
Temple Cottages, Broadstone, Dublin 7.