Madam, - The recent Dáil statement by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern that the US should close the Guantánamo Bay detention "facility" is very welcome. "Ireland regards torture as unacceptable and unjustifiable under any circumstances," he said.
Now that we seem to have regained our ability to distinguish between right and wrong, we should go all the way towards retrieving our integrity and some semblance of our neutrality by withdrawing landing rights in Ireland from all US military and CIA flights. For far too long we have been complicit in the deaths of countless thousands of innocent civilians and in the torture of unknown numbers of others.
By our craven submission to the dictates of the warmongers of Washington, we are as guilty as they are. - Yours, etc,
GEARÓID KILGALLEN, Crosthwaite Park South, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.