Sir, - This weekend at the funeral of Veronica Guerin, we have seen the ultimate in political cynicism.
Those politicians, of administrations both past and present who have had within their gift the power to enact legislation which would have gone a long way towards making Veronica's investigations unnecessary, have the neck that only politicians possess to be anywhere near that terribly sad ceremony. They should have been in hiding.
How often have we seen pictures of distraught parents being restrained by the gardai from evicting drug dealers from their local environment. Over and over we hear from the very same politicians that the public must not take the law into their own hands. What law? There is no law.
Drug traffickers, paedophiles pornographers all have a free ride to do almost what they will. The offenders are known to the gardai, and the law prevents their apprehension.
All that was missing from the same funeral was one or two members of the judiciary who up to now, bear a share of the guilt for the ease with which this criminal assassination was brought about. - Yours, etc.,
14 Coolroe Heights, Ballincollig Cork.