Sir, - In the case of Nora Wall, I have been waiting, in vain, for any one of the following:
(a) A journalist who will thoroughly investigate all of the circumstances surrounding the accusations levelled against her and her co-accused, and the subsequent acquittal following the quashing of the verdict of guilty.
(b) One of the many people in Ireland, who pursue, with such diligence, injustices experienced by people, especially where these occur outside of Ireland. The redressing of the injustices suffered by two of our own citizens would seem tailor-made for their attention.
(c) An elected representative, from either of the two parties in Government, who will succeed in persuading the Minister for Justice that an explanation should be given to the public and an apology to the two people involved.
Since the quashing of the verdicts and the decision not to seeka re-trial, there has been a deafening silence. Why?
Can it possibly be because Nora Wall has spent her life caring for orphaned, abandoned, often troubled and neglected children - a job few of us would be brave enough to undertake - and that while doing so she was a Catholic nun?
In the Ireland of today, do these facts compromise her right to justice? - Yours, etc.,
Margaret Rossiter, Powerstown Road, Clonmel, Co Tipperary.