Sir, – Barry Walsh in his letter (June 5th) assessing the relative independence of elected "Independent" councillors while an excellent summation, got one thing wrong. The fact that a group of genuinely independent national politicians lent support and guidance to a number of genuinely Independent candidates cannot in any way indicate that they would, if elected, jump to any diktat of Independent national politicians.
Team Lowry, as Mr Walsh suggests, is a political party by another name and is the kind of structure, together with the “Independents” with party political form, which prevents genuine Independents from achieving success in Seanad elections. – Yours, etc,
DECLAN MacPARTLIN,
Camolin,
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Enniscorthy, Co Wexford.