Sir, - Typical of the Minister for Defence, Mr Smith, a member of a so-called republican and nationalist party, that at the drop of a sailor's hat, in the heady atmosphere of the Tall Ships, he can commit £250,000 to the restoration of the Asgard.
Contrast this with the scandalous and niggardly treatment of carers and those looking after elderly relatives in their own homes, as featured on Today with Emer Woodful on RTE Radio 1.
Asgard or not, I am confident where the sentiments of Erskine Childers would lie. - Yours, etc., Aidan Carroll,
Maiden Hall, Kilmallock, Co Limerick.