Sir, - The letters of John O'Reilly and Rory O'Hanlon, full of bile and insult, are both astonishing and depressing to read in 1998. They reek of lost battles, and now-discredited certainties. Did they not even notice, for instance, that ex-Chief Justice O'Higgins himself urged five years ago that the law reforms be passed?
Why do you choose to print such stuff? Black people do not suffer the indignity of seeing letters expounding the necessity of slavery: Jews do not pick up The Irish Times to read that the concentration camps were all their own fault. If Ireland has moved on, why don't you? - Yours, etc., Christopher Robson,
South William Street, Dublin 2.