Sir, - Mr Burke may have "drawn a line in the sand" but that can and should be washed away by the tide of public opinion. Rules or no rules, his attitude of "ignorance is bliss" in accepting £30,000 in cold, hard cash calls into serious question the political judgment of our current Minister for Foreign Affairs. What effect, then, on his involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process, where the issues at stake are life and death, not merely bricks and mortar? - Yours, etc.,
Newcastle, Co Dublin.
