Sir, - Now that so many disgraceful secrets form our deplorable past, hidden for years by those in authority, are being daily revealed by the courageous media, perhaps the country's single greatest conspiracy of silence might be broken - even if this time the media are on the same side as the authorities.
I refer, of course, to the membership of the IRA's Army Council. - Yours, etc., Michael Purser,
Strand Road, Killiney, Co Dublin.