Madam, - I note that Kathy Sinnott has joined the Independence and Democracy group in the European Parliament. During the campaign, Kathy constantly said that she was not Euro-sceptic, but was critical of some aspects of the European Union. She pointed to the many other aspects of her policies, including her laudable action on disability rights as being at the core of her campaign.
However the party she is now aligned to seems to say little beyond one unifying desire to defeat the new European Constitution. It includes the UK Independence Party, which advocates UK withdrawal from the EU and hopes to "wreck" the functioning of the European Parliament. It also includes a party called the League of Polish Families, whose youth group recently assaulted marchers in a gay pride march in Warsaw. I hope that Kathy will make it clear how she intends to pursue her extensive policy agenda in the European Parliament. - Yours, etc.,
DAVID GARRAHY, Castletroy, Limerick.