Sir, - Mary Holland believes that ". .. the subsequent referendums on the right to travel and to information about facilities abroad ... seem to have drawn a line under the debate and given us a solution of sorts" (Irish Times, January 23rd). She is correct - a solution of sorts. However, as people were not given a choice in that three card trick referendum to vote for or against legalised abortion, it seems quite reasonable that they now be given a choice in the democratic calm of 1997.
There is a demand for a constitutional choice on the abortion issue, a more substantial demand than that for bail reform or the removal of Cabinet confidentiality. Why not give the people their referendum and spare us further political and journalistic nannyism? - Yours, etc.,
Amiens Street,
Dublin 1.