Sir, - Brian Maye's suggestion (August 26th) that there should be an Arthur Griffith Summer School merits universal support. In the current climate of disclosure of pervasive corruption in public life. It should be salutary to proclaim that the first head of government in an independent Ireland was the epitome of integrity.
I submit that the adoption of this extraordinary self-sacrificing patriot as our primary national icon would do much to arrest the prevailing slide to perdition. - Yours, etc.,
Ray Fay, Secretary, Arthur Griffith Society, Malahide Road, Dublin 3.