Madam, - I don't often agree with Fintan O'Toole but he is dead right about Fianna Fail's twisted view of itself (Opinion, January 22nd).
I was once asked by a Fianna Fáil friend, an intelligent and thoughtful person, to join the party. I refused, on the grounds that Fianna Fáil cannot distinguish between the national interest and the Fianna Fáil interest.
"But surely," he said, genuinely and seriously, "they're the same thing." - Yours, etc,
JASON O'MAHONY, Coppinger Glade, Stillorgan, Co Dublin.