Sir, – I see that in your TV listings of August 10th, on the documentary Four Seasons in a Day, on the Carlingford Ferry, you refer to “the northwest of our island, the border between the Republic of Ireland and Britain”.
Leaving aside the points of the compass, I doubt if even the First Minister would refer to Northern Ireland as being Britain.
I am surprised that The Irish Times did. – Yours, etc,
DERMOT LACEY,
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Donnybrook,
Dublin 4.