Madam, - Your Letters page coverage of the Tara M3 controversy exhibits a worrying lack of balance. Prompted by Tuesday's German-Irish eruption - and through the medium of your online archive - I uncovered 14 letters published on the topic since the start of the year. Of these only one - from the Secretary of Headfort Golf Club, no less - expressed a view in favour of the NRA plans.
In the same period both Ibec and the Meath Chambers of Commerce have conducted public opinion polls which show overwhelming public support for the proposed routing. What is particularly in evidence from both surveys is the success of the protesters' campaign of disinformation. The Ibec survey indicated, for example, that nearly a quarter of motorists think the M3 is being routed through the Hill of Tara itself.
In spite of this, 75 per cent believe the motorway should proceed.
Has The Irish Times lost all sense of editorial objectivity or is this another case of the deafening silence of the majority? - Yours, etc.,
REG McCABE, Director, Transport & PPPs, Ibec, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.