Sir, - After the IRA's ground-breaking move on decommissioning (in spite of continuing daily attacks on nationalists), I am very disappointed at the minimalist British response.
Only one base in Magherafelt and three watchtowers in South Armagh are to be removed, but the three South Armagh bases adjacent to these watchtowers are remaining, as well as the rest of the 20-plus watchtowers, listening posts, camera towers, helicopter pads and bases in this small area.
Why do the British refuse to get rid of more of this ugly, oppressive military hardware in an area which has not seen an attack for years, when there are no similar watchtowers in North Belfast, Lower Shankill, Larne, Coleraine or Portadown, where pipe bomb and blast bomb attacks are a daily threat and where several people have been killed by loyalists in recent years? - Yours, etc.,
Dr Seβn Marlow, Willow Park Road, Dublin 11.