Sir - Sean O'Callaghan, a victim of John Hume's and Vincent Browne's "peace cudgels", asks the crucial question - "why is there such a deep reluctance in Ireland to have a proper debate about the peace process?"
Perhaps the answer lies in Article 1 of the Anglo Irish Agreement which legitimises the "Unionist/Loyalist veto" to Irish national self determination and puts the SDLP and the parties in the Dail as "traitors" in the eyes of Republicans - and hypocrites as well because we acknowledge the right of the Irish people as a whole to national self determination.
There is an urgent need to tease out the implications of the all embracing nationality symbolised in the tricolour. Are noble sounding words, based on sincere intentions, a sufficient "cherishing" from the Rome fearing, priest fearing Orangeman? Has the "Orangeman perhaps a temporary "veto" until those fears are reasonably answered and provided for? - Yours, etc.,
JAMES McGEEVER,
Dublin Road,
Kingscourt,
Co Cavan.