Madam, – I don’t always agree with John O’Shea, but I fully endorse his views (June 16th) on the insanity of providing aid, including money from Ireland, to wealthy but inequitable countries. What I cannot understand is how we can afford to give the British government €500 million to build a motorway in its own country, while we are cutting overseas aid to the genuinely needy. That amount of money would do much for the needy in developing countries, or build the new children’s hospital. – Yours, etc,